Movies like Hana and Alice

If you like "Hana and Alice" you are looking for touching, humorous and semi serious movies about / with coming of age, best friend, love triangle, amnesia, fall in love, friendship and youth themes of Comedy, Drama and Romance genre shot in Japan.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Hana and Alice (2004)
 7.2
 5K
Hana and Alice (2004)
Original name: 花とアリス
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, erotic drama, gay cinema, hot
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, best friend, love triangle, amnesia, fall in love, friendship, youth, love and romance, couples, teenage life, high school, deception, young love, friendship between girls, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, memory loss, teenager, beach, introvert, crush, female bonding, puberty, slice of life, asian prostitute, ballet ...
Time: contemporary
Place: japan, tokyo

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to Hana and Alice

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, touching, realistic and semi serious films with plots about youth, love and romance, friendship, coming of age, teenager, high school and teenage life mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hana and Alice: Blue Gate Crossing (2002), All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), The Color of Milk (2004), Linda Linda Linda (2005), Love Letter (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Blue Gate Crossing (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An is-she-or-isn't-she gay comedy focused on a Taiwanese teen, the boy she might like, and the girl she may love.
Style: realistic, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, love triangle, first love, coming of age, lesbian, friendship, best friend, lgbtq, teenage life, partner, gay, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yuichi Hasumi and Shusuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yuichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop ...
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, depressing, teen, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, bullying, music, alienation, high school, social misfits, teenage life, friendship, adolescence, youth, loneliness, school ...
Time: year 2000, year 1999, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, okinawa, asia, okinawa japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Color of Milk (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Selma's mother died giving birth to her, and Selma's step aunt is living proof that men only cause trouble. So the 11 year old girl makes a deal with her best friends that they will stay away from boys and dedicate their lives to science. ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot: coming of age, child, family relations, love and romance, teenage life, teenage love, friendship, friends, self discovery, fall in love, best friend, summer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A group of four high school girls decide to put together a band for their school cultural festival. Three days before they are to play the festival, the guitarist and singer quit the band. The remaining members must figure out what to do or risk ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl, music band, musician's life, teenage life, youth, love and romance, lifestyle, music, contests and competitions, artists and showbiz, high school life ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.9
 11K
Love Letter (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When exchanging letters two women discover new things about a deceased man they used to know.
Style: romantic drama, independent film, anamorphic, retro, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, time travel, strong female character, asian, slice of life, loneliness, love story, erotica, asian prostitute, friendship, high school, mountain ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 4K
Nana (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Based on the popular manga, this follows the adventures of two girls named Nana who depend on each other's help to realize their dreams. The two meet on a train to Tokyo, where Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to ...
Style: feel good, touching, shoujo, sweet, manga ...
Plot: music, punk band, music band, youth, hopes, lolita, rock, punk rock, friendship, goth girl, superhero, girl ...
Time: 2000s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 253
You, I Love (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rin, Yuu, Koyomi and Keita are friends in high school who live in the same apartment building. Rin and Yuu like each other, but they don’t tell each other, until Kazuma shows up.
Style: sexy, touching, sentimental, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, japanese school, teenage girl, shyness, high school, classmate, japanese teenager, teenager, neighbor, couples, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.4
 913
Honey & Clover (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
Style: realistic, touching, sweet, captivating, manga ...
Plot: love triangle, self discovery, couples, coming of age, lifestyle, youth, college, love, friendship, asian, superhero, introvert ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Movie in collections
japan movies
3136
deception movies
4350
young love movies
1031
Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Erika Shinohara (Fumi Nikaido) is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika Shinohara doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to ...
Style: romantic, touching, sweet, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: japanese girl, love, relationships, fall in love, male female relationship, couple relations, escapades, love and romance, teenager, couples, youth, friendship ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
One Week Friends (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: High school student Yuki Hase (Kento Yamazaki) wants to become close with classmate Kaori Fujimiya (Haruna Kawaguchi) who is alway by herself. Kaori Fujimiya refuses to become close with Yuki Hase, because she forgets her friends every new Monday. ...
Style: romantic, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: classmate, friendship, classmate classmate relationship, love affair, couples, fall in love, love, destiny, youth, hopes, love and romance, couple relations ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kelly's regular headaches, and he also has to deal with a frustrating situation at home, where ...
Style: intense, realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, unlikely friendships, human nature, contests and competitions, friends, addiction, fall in love, lifestyle, friendship, family relations ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 115
Blue Summer (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Rio is a high school student in Tokyo. Her mother tells her she will spend the summer in the countryside. There, she meets Ginzo. He is a high school student and handsome. They fall in love.
Style: talky, psychological, romantic, touching, humorous ...
Plot: summer, countryside, japanese girl, girl, japanese teenager, love affair, family relations, friendship, love, young love, friends, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Too Young to Marry (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lovers reunited, hopes, fall in love, love and romance, interracial relations, couples, wish come true, college life, unfulfilled love, coming of age, youth, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 282
Rainbow Days (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Nijiiro Days follows the colorful lives and romantic relationships of four high school boys—Natsuki Hashiba, a dreamer with delusions of love; Tomoya Matsunaga, a narcissistic playboy who has multiple girlfriends; Keiichi Katakura, a kinky sadist ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, light, touching
Plot: teenage boy, group of friends, teenage girl, teenage life, best friend, family relations, youth, teenager, love and romance, friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school.
Style: feel good, teen, romantic, cute, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, best friend, tomboy, love triangle, love, friendship, teenager, teenage love, teen romance, friends to lovers, love story ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.7
 10K
The Party (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Style: emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, crumbling marriage, puberty, teenage love, family problems, love, love and romance, first love, teenage life, friends, youth ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: france, paris france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.0
 320
Cheeky Girls 2 (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After Kati, Hanna and Mila first experiences with guys, it is now necessary to cultivate those relations. The jealous Mila thinks that her friend Markus, would cheat on her with Vanessa. Kati, who is actually together with Tobi, finds that Robert, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, entertaining, light
Plot: teenage love, school, best friend, college life, teenage life, youth, couples, friends, college, adolescence vs adulthood, love affair, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though ...
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, teen, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, nerd, couples, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, youth, pretend relationship, friendship, popularity, cheerleading ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara, who isn't that smart, notices pretty boy Naoki Irie. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express her feelings to him, but finally has a ...
Style: dorama, light, humorous, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: arrogance, unrequited love, fall in love, opposites attract, first love, love and romance, teenage love, coming of age, teenage life, youth, love triangle, unlikely couple ...
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.8
 2K
Orange (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Naho Takamiya is a 2nd year high school student. During the spring, Naho Takamiya receives a letter sent by herself from 10 years in the future. In the letter, she liked transfer student Kakeru Naruse. Kakeru Naruse carried emotional scars from his ...
Style: sexy, shoujo, romantic, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: japanese girl, dating, teacher, high school crush, japanese school, student, teenage girl, boy girl relationship, high school, friendship, husband wife relationship, horny ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.0
 2K
Hula Girls (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot: hopes, starting over, dancing, rise to the top, social relations, small town life, small town, society, working class, mining town, japanese teenager, japanese girl ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Seven Minutes in Heaven (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage sex, teenage love, friendship, youth, teenager, fall in love, friends, love, children, child, teen angst ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, ohio, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Movie in collections
teenager movies
11008
beach movies
4550
introvert movies
268
crush movies
744
 4.4
 58K
LOL (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, teenage life, teenage love, high school life, youth, love and romance, high school, mother daughter relationship, high school romance, coming of age, happy ending, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.8
 73K
The First Time (2012)
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, ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, teenager, love, first love, love and romance, teenage love, first sex, teenage life, virginity, teenage girl, virgin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Shag - More Dancing (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend.
Style: sex comedy, retro, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: teenager, beach party, beach, best friend, coming of age, friendship, summer, road trip, runaway, dancing, rock and roll, girl power ...
Time: 60s, year 1989, 20th century, 50s, year 1963
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Two best friends being convinced that they are not in love search for each other's love.
Style: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: friendship, true love, best friend, college graduate, womanizer, looking for love, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, love triangle, young lovers, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Teen's Confessions (2013)
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.
Style: humorous, touching, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage love, parents and children, coming of age, family relations, high school life, youth, sister sister relationship, friendship, adolescence, love and romance, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.3
 32K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.0
 415K
Easy A (2010)
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 ...
Style: feel good, romantic, teen sex comedy, entertaining, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage girl, high school life, teenage life, notoriety, love and romance, classmate, popularity ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, xian, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie