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The Guitar (2008)
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The Guitar (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
Style: emotional, psychological, touching, realistic, romantic, serious, independent film
Plot: sex, lesbian sex, self discovery, unfulfillment, road not taken, estrangement, terminal illness, cancer, life is a bitch, lesbian, female nudity, nude girl, nudity, dealing with death, guitarist, psychology, lgbt, motivation, medicine, illness, rock music, rock and roll, consciousness, disease, special needs ...
Time: contemporary
Place: usa, new york
Keyword: new yorker

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about couples, love and romance, female nudity, nudity, sex, unfulfillment and sex scene mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like The Guitar: Veronika Decides to Die (2009), Bare (2015), 1 Message (2011), Yellow (2006), Stricken (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, emotional, intense ...
Plot: suicide, mental institution, suicidal, coma, mental illness, psychiatrist, terminal illness, suicide attempt, female protagonist, depression, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with ...
Style: emotional, bleak, touching, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, depression, loneliness, illness, women, dating, sadness, tarot card, abortion, character study, interracial relations, single parent ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.1
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Bare (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman's friendship with a drug-dealing drifter evolves into a lesbian romance.
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, coming of age, self discovery, lgbtq, female protagonist, drug, arrest, strip club, small town, lesbian love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.0
 142
1 Message (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Tells the story of Becca, a beautiful 28 year-old woman whose perfect life is brought to an abrupt halt after she accidentally discovers a lump in her breast.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: introspection, hopes, unfulfillment, self discovery, terminal illness, twists and turns, life is a bitch, dealing with death, strong female presence, cancer, female protagonist, christian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 5.2
 1K
Yellow (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Latina ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. Amaryllis heads for New York City, where she is forced to work in a seedy strip ...
Style: uplifting, serious, emotional, sexy, erotic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, self discovery, follow your dream, relationship vs career, dancer's life, love affair, nightlife, stripper, life is a bitch, sleaze, dancing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.8
 6K
Stricken (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cancer, cancer patient, true love, self discovery, infidelity, womanizer, love affair, crumbling relationship, life turned upside down, terminal illness, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.3
 525
Hearts of Fire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, stylized
Audience: date night
Plot: rock, farm, sex scene, female singer, desire for fame, rising to stardom, fall in love, rise and fall, ambition, unfulfillment, self discovery, musician's life ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: england, europe, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 94K
Sweet November (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, emotional ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love story, terminal illness, love, fall in love, cancer, tragic love, bittersweet, couples, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Reform School Girl (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Donna is sent to a reform school to take the fall for bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and learns about herself.
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, rough, psychotronic
Plot: lesbian sex, lesbian, women's prison, female nudity, prison, fondling, courtroom, scapegoat, lesbian interest, lgbt, erotica, lust ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Slaves to the Underground (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The grunge girl band "No Exits" is just about to get a record deal. At this time Jimmy is appearing again, the former boy-friend of the band guitarist Shelly. She had left him because his friend had raped her. But he doesn't know that ...
Style: erotic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: musician, making love, sex scene, lgbtq, politics, bar fight, lesbianism, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians, society, musician's life, gender ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 914
Maze (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pregnancy, friends, couples, family relations, introspection, love and romance, friendship, self discovery, moral dilemma, fall in love, lifestyle, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, couples, parents and children, couple relations, fall in love ...
Place: usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: mute or deaf, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, musician's life, couples, misfit, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.4
 1K
LelleBelle (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 19-year old Belle practices playing the violin diligently, but is unable to impart her music with a sensitive undertone. Her life changes when she discovers that sexual desire stimulates passion in her music.
Style: sexy, sentimental, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lust, sex, sex with a stranger, coming of age, musician, audition, hand job, self discovery, musician's life, follow your dream, fish out of water, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Perfect Ending (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.
Style: touching, sexy, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, self discovery, lesbian interest, couples, lesbian couple, prostitute, first lesbian experience, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.8
 8K
Mr. Jones (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.
Style: compassionate, melancholic, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, psychiatrist, psychology, hospital, loneliness, adaptation, addiction, love affair, forbidden love, rehabilitation ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Mother and Child (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks ...
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, talky, sad ...
Plot: adoption, women, pregnancy, lawyer, family relations, teenage pregnancy, existentialism, manipulation, parents and children, estrangement, hopes, unfaithfulness ...
Time: year 2009, year 1973, 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Scenes from the Goldmine (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, club, rock and roll, betrayal, ambition, couples, friends, dishonesty, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance, musician's life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Desert Hearts (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.
Style: sexy, touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, divorce, gender, self discovery, lesbianism, gay, lesbian sex, lgbtq, desert ...
Time: 50s, year 1985, year 1959, 60s, 1950s
Place: nevada, indiana, usa, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Claire of the Moon (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Claire of the Moon is set in the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest. Claire Jabrowski, a famous heterosexual author, decides to attend a retreat for all-female writers. Claire's rommate at the retreat is Dr. Noel Benedict, author of a book called ...
Style: sexual, independent film, erotic, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, gays and lesbians, lesbian sex, lesbian love, passionate sex, lgbt, lgbtq, nudity, lesbianism, love triangle, homosexuality ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 703
Sunday (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since "Vertigo" is a middle-aged, moderately successful actress. Oliver/Matthew is either a homeless man or a ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: diner, self discovery, hobo, tramp, homeless, couple relations, unfulfillment, friendship, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, society ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.5
 468
Bliss (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two sex workers meet in a Berlin brothel. In a place where the female body is a commodity, they experience moments of happiness. A feisty love story about attraction, fears and self-determination.
Style: romantic, emotional, touching, talky, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbtq, lesbianism, female objectification, love, prostitute, lesbian sex, brothel, female nudity, prostitution, lgbt, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.8
 10K
Song One (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Estranged from her family, Franny returns home when an accident leaves her brother comatose. Retracing his life as an aspiring musician, she tracks down his favorite musician, James Forester. Against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s music scene, Franny ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: wooing, love and romance, couple relations, coping, homecoming, fall in love, self discovery, estrangement, music, hospital, art, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Things Behind the Sun (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: rape, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, forced sexual contact, gang rape, teenage girl, rapist, journalist, musician's life, memory, secret, coping ...
Place: florida, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
John and Mary (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Style: talky, serious, psychological, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, love, commitment, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, urban, singleness ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Waterdance (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, talky, psychological ...
Plot: disability, friendship, paraplegic, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human spirit, society, hopes, human nature, physical disability, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
28 Hotel Rooms (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected ...
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, captivating ...
Plot: hotel room, extramarital affair, hotel, adultery, infidelity, coitus, sex, cheating wife, impossible love, dating, introspection, love affair ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.5
 1K
Itsi Bitsi (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 1962 is the year when an entire generation lives life as though it was their last day. Young activist Eik Skaløe has his entire life turned upside down when he falls head over heels in love with the beautiful peace activist Iben Nagel Rasmussen, ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sexy
Plot: love triangle, dysfunctional relationship, love affair, fighting the system, musician's life, ambition, music band, rebellion, drug use, rock, love and romance, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of ...
Style: mumblecore, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, looking for love, college graduate, female nudity, female pubic hair, college, love triangle, human nature, lifestyle, introspection, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
 2K
August (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: August tells the story of two former lovers, Troy and Jonathan, who reunite after a long ago painful breakup. After spending several years in Spain, Troy returns to Los Angeles and decides to phone Jonathan and meet for coffee. A seemingly innocent ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, gay couple, love triangle, gender, gay interest, lovers reunited, couples, introspection, male pubic hair, gay romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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