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Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
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Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is on of the drivers in the derby who's wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, independent film, retro, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, youth, family relations, fall in love, society, working class, human nature, teenager, betrayal, revenge, age difference, grownups, bondage, automobile, brat pack, parent child relationship, friends, love and romance, couples, infidelity, social relations, bittersweet ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois, texas, california, new jersey
Keyword: americana, gangsters, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and semi serious films with plots about youth, friendship, coming of age, family relations, friends, love and romance and small town mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Grandview, U.S.A.: Just a Dream (2002), Swimming (2000), Screen Door Jesus (2003), Cherry (2010), Whatever (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Just a Dream (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friendship, friends, obsession, interracial relations, family life, family relations, social relations, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: nevada, usa
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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
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Screen Door Jesus (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A vision of Jesus sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper's front porch sparks misadventures as the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon and the townsfolk start to take sides. As more people flock to the door, some for guidance, ...
Style: sincere, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: society, social relations, bittersweet, small town life, interracial relations, friendship, small town, human nature, religions or cults, religion, preacher, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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100%
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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
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Whatever (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style: realistic, independent film, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, age difference, art teacher, bittersweet, performer's life, youth, society, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1998, future, 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
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85%
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Face (2002)
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, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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Love That Boy (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Love That Boy is the story of Phoebe, a socially inept overachiever, unrecognized in a world run by C students. Phoebe’s life is totally dominated by her “To Do Before Graduation” list. When Phoebe’s best friend Robyn dumps Phoebe two weeks ...
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, light, touching ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, friendship, friends, youth, college, coming of age, age difference, looking for love, teenager, obsession, love and romance ...
Place: nova scotia
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Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 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, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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60%
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Something Like Happiness (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, eccentric family, love and romance, single parent, working class, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Falkenberg Farewell (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's the last summer in Falkenberg for five childhood friends. David yearns to be a child again and Holger never wants to move away. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jörgen finances his ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, friendship, grownups, best friend, small town, childhood friend, relocation, summer, society, nihilism, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Carny (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional triangle.
Style: stylized, realistic, semi serious, disturbing, gloomy
Plot: coming of age, circus, small town, carnival, cuckold, freak, hustler, travel, waitress, game, cons and scams, love triangle ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 20th century, 70s
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56%
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
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A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five year old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: small town, love triangle, coming of age, basketball, single father, divorce, friendship, bittersweet, love, youth, suburbs, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: kansas, usa, texas
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54%
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Lebanon, Pa. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, coming of age, hopes, youth, wooing, small town, road not taken, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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Ricochet River (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, culture clash, interracial relations, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, small town, on the road, youth, lifestyle, society, social misfits ...
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Lost Islands (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, family in crisis, teenage love, parents and children, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
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Paradise (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Willard Young is a 10-year-old boy who is sent by his mother to stay with her best friend Lily Reed, who lives in the Delta shrimp-fishing country in a town called Paradise. Lily and her husband Ben have been living in an unmentioned emotional ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sad, cult classic ...
Plot: small town, love, friendship, coming of age, bullying, youth, death, women, childhood love, village, children, child ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
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47%
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Little Birds (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: attempted rape, teenage life, coming of age, self discovery, rebellion, youth, street kid, estrangement, bait, leaving home, adolescence vs adulthood, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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46%
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Sweet Lorraine (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: hotel, summer, couples, family relations, friends, elderly, ambition, aging, hopes, love and romance, small town, love affair ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
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46%
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Old Enough (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, youth, coming of age, female friendship, middle school, woman, strong female lead, age-gap relationship, family relations, female bonding, friendship between girls ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york
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43%
Ana and the Others (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Twenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, sexual, offbeat ...
Plot: youth, friendship, self discovery, homecoming, obsessive quest, love and romance, social differences, road not taken, teaching the ways of the world, family life, small town, best friend ...
Time: future
Place: argentina
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42%
The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
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41%
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Face 2 Face (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere, tense, touching ...
Plot: bullying, coming of age, childhood friend, found footage, friendship, youth, couple relations, love and romance, teenage life, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Swimmers (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, dysfunctional family, sex crime, solace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
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40%
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Mending Fences (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot: corporate crime, family relations, farm, homecoming, legal, dishonesty, small town, love affair, rivalry, social relations, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada
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40%
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, school, friendship, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, best friend, sex, family relations, looking for sex, fall in love, teenage love, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: chicago, usa, hawaii
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40%
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Toe to Toe (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lacrosse, friendship, teenage life, self discovery, coming of age, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, female bonding, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Dog Days of Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, offbeat ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, small town, social relations, small town life, friendship, childhood, friendship between boys, father son relationship, male female relationship, boy, accident ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Martino's Summer (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: L’estate di Martino is a modern day fairy tale that softens the shades and darkness surrounding the mysteries tied to tragic events that happened in the summer of 1980: the Ustica tragedy on June 27th, and the bomb attack at the station of Bologna ...
Style: sexy, contemplative, light, sentimental, disturbing ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, surfing, teenager, infidelity, seduction, cheating girlfriend, u.s. military, fall in love, love, youth, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Me Without You (2001)
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
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