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Lawn Dogs (1997)
8K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, fairy tale, sentimental, witty, surprise ending, thought provoking, bleak, bad ending ...
Plot:
friendship, hypocrisy, magic realism, infidelity, coming of age, girl man relationship, adultery, male nudity, wealth, poverty, discrimination, suspicion, dancing, party, female protagonist, sabotage, trailer home, dog attack, suburban life, love and romance, odd couple, imagination, life & death, prejudice, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia
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Most similar movies to Lawn Dogs
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, talky and emotional films with plots about mentor, pornography, friendship, storytelling, runaway, coming of age and suprisingly clever mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Lawn Dogs: Pretty Baby (1978), My Life in Pink (1997), Whatever (1998), Is Anybody There? (2008), Thirteen (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as ...
Style:
controversial, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
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child prostitution, virginity, innocence lost, prostitution, loss of virginity, girl man relationship, world war one, photographer, sexuality, brothel, child prostitute, prostitute ...
Time:
victorian era, 1910s, 90s, 20th century, year 1917
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl, talks of marrying his neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. His actions lead to problems for him and his family.
Style:
controversial, touching, sexy, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
transsexual, coming of age, gay, cross dressing, gender, children, childhood, women, lgbtq, dysfunctional family, suburbs, gay slur ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, belgium, paris france, europe
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100%
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, bleak, bad ending, visually appealing, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, school, drugs, high school, gang, workplace, adaptation, police investigation, age difference, nude, multiple storylines ...
Time:
80s, future, 70s
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, new york
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Style:
touching, emotional, depressing, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, loneliness, aging, character study, retirement home, justice, adolescence, reconciliation, retirement home life, golden years ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, california, ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience ...
Style:
talky, realistic, clever, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot:
writers, coming of age, friendship, adoption, dysfunctional family, world war two, family relations, father daughter relationship, culture clash, betrayal, life philosophy, adolescence ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, tokyo, france, new england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Movies like Thirteen
91K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, tense, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, drug addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, peer pressure, dysfunctional family, addiction, underage drinking, teenage protagonist, self harm, teenager, kids in trouble ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances (Emma Thompson) has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law), travels to Frances' house to reconnect ...
Style:
talky, touching, bleak, sexy, visually appealing ...
Plot:
winter, mother daughter relationship, small town, nude, children, sexual abuse, destiny, creativity, culture clash, runaway, self discovery, school ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, europe, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
women, friendship, dysfunctional family, youth, twists and turns, revenge, family bonds, sacrifice, solitude, child hero, sex crime, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
Place:
jamaica, baltimore, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, touching, sexy, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, love and romance, prostitute, coming of age, dysfunctional family, adolescence, unlikely friendships, redemption, family relations, introspection, parents and children, human nature ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1971, 1920s
Place:
georgia, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
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realistic, touching, sentimental, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, road trip, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, partners, parents and children, parent child relationship, last will and testament ...
Time:
year 1989, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, london, california, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Movies similar to American Beauty
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenager, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, haunted by the past, family in crisis ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, visually appealing, poignant, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, youth, artist, violence, melancholy, boy, children, adaptation, solitude ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
scotland, new jersey, california, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sexy, talky, melancholic ...
Plot:
male nudity, small town, nude, dysfunctional family, love story, adaptation, beautiful scenery, loneliness, life philosophy, life & death, redemption, childhood ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The ...
Style:
talky, touching, sexy, visually appealing, poignant ...
Plot:
teacher, boarding school, coming of age, preparatory school, marriage, male nudity, science, british, idealism, prejudice, friendship, fantasy world ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, new jersey, tokyo, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, talky, gloomy ...
Plot:
working class, loneliness, life, multiple storylines, existentialism, parents and children, society, couple relations, relationships, sister sister relationship, missing person, adoption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
london, los angeles, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Movies similar to And Your Mother Too!
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the ...
Style:
allegory, sexy, feel good, visually appealing, stylized ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, lgbtq, male nudity, sexuality, lone hero, honest, life philosophy, loneliness, mentor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style:
realistic, sexy, romantic, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, self discovery, betrayal, virginity, teenage girl, lolita, teenage life, adolescence, women ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
london, france, paris france, california, oxford university ...
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28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, art house, gloomy, stylized ...
Plot:
children, poverty, boy, friendship, coming of age, neighbor, bully, urban decay, moving, grief, garbage, rat ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
glasgow scotland, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Style:
emotional, bleak, gloomy, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, mother's boyfriend, older man younger woman relationship, coming of age, innocence lost, dancing, rebelliousness, youth, life is a bitch, fall in love, adolescence, realism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sexy, erotic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, hospital, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, human nature, parents and children, society, relationships, redemption, father daughter relationship, poverty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain, tokyo, europe, andalusia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Films like Fish Tank
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Style:
disturbing, melancholic, controversial, compassionate, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
pedophilia, coming of age, adolescence, sex with a minor, sexual exploration, sexual abuse, child abuse, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, racism, sexuality, neighbor ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, year 1991
Place:
california, austin texas, usa, houston texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, harsh, touching, poignant ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
teacher student relationship, family relations, cheerleading, family in crisis, teachers and students, poetry, high school, loneliness, youth, power relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
ohio, florida
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28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to ...
Style:
psychological, depressing, philosophical, compassionate, disturbing ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, guilt, loneliness, family relations, suspense, coma, family life, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, couple relations ...
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28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sexy, depressing, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, working class, love and romance, coma, depression, loneliness, society, youth, life is a bitch, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, flanders
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic ...
Style:
talky, sexy, dramatic, intellectual, light ...
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, redemption, violence, catholicism, morality, mentor, revenge, relationships, justice, multiple storylines, secrets ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, europe, italy, usa ...
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27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship ...
Style:
depressing, bleak, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
abuse, domestic violence, redemption, depression, rage, violence, marital rape, society, frustration, brutality, social problems, abusive husband ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still ...
Style:
sad, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking, biting ...
Plot:
violence, suspense, immigrants, fighting the system, working class, dysfunctional family, love, nude, hospital, sex crime, melancholy, british ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, california, london, liverpool, paraguay
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, gay, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, lgbt, virginity, religion, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, teenage life ...
Place:
los angeles, california, spain, usa
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, rough, visually appealing, allegory ...
Plot:
divorce, manipulation, hospital, idealism, prejudice, guilt, relationships, identity, runaway, fantasy world, fighting the system, finnish ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, japan, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, women, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, couple relations, human nature, love and romance ...
Place:
new jersey, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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