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Lawn Dogs (1997)
9K
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:
independent film, touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, witty, offbeat, esoteric, mind blowing, clever ...
Plot:
friendship, hypocrisy, infidelity, male nudity, girl man relationship, magic realism, dog attack, coming of age, dancing, party, security guard, female protagonist, sabotage, baking, trailer home, wealth, poverty, discrimination, suspicion, love and romance, odd couple, suburban life, thief, forest, river ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, independent film and talky films with plots about friendship, family relations, youth, coming of age, parents and children, nude and love and romance mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Lawn Dogs: Swimming (2000), Don't Tell Anyone (1998), Lost Embrace (2004), Pretty Baby (1978), The Safety of Objects (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
usa, south carolina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
gender, skinny dipping, gay husband, gay man straight woman relationship, cocaine, coming of age, college, lgbt, male homosexuality, naked man, closeted homosexual, drug abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina, France, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
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In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an ...
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touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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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 ...
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controversial, sexy, erotic, disturbing, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
virginity, innocence lost, nymphet, child prostitution, prostitution, girl man relationship, loss of virginity, world war one, photographer, brothel, child sexual abuse, sexual content ...
Time:
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Place:
new orleans, america, louisiana, usa
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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:
philosophical, psychological, compassionate, depressing, disturbing ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, guilt, loneliness, family relations, coma, family life, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, single parent, society, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2001
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa. Then Mickael makes a decision to open up his relationship to include Clement his rich-kid ...
Style:
sexual, emotional, serious, erotic, sensual ...
Plot:
gay interest, coming of age, love triangle, teenage life, menage a trois, gay, cheating girlfriend, hot and sexy, hot guys, lgbt, male nudity, contests and competitions ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, independent film, crying
Plot:
family relations, small town, love affair, teenage life, forbidden love, couples, love and romance, starting over, youth, parents and children, coming of age, love triangle ...
Place:
montana, usa
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48%
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:
emotional, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, friendship, teenager, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, death in the family ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Style:
sexy, road movie, erotic, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, sexuality, sex, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, age difference, friendship between men, on the road, threesome, male friendship, gay ...
Time:
year 2001, near future, year 2002, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, mexico city, acapulco mexico ...
Similarity:
48%
141K
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, period piece, costume drama, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lolita, teenage life, teenager, love, self discovery, direction and purpose, older man young girl relationship, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 1900s, 60s, year 1961
Place:
london, paris france, france, united kingdom, britain ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
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, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s, year 1998, 20th century, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, new england, europe, north carolina ...
Similarity:
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3K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from his fellow gang members despite their often violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them, be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays, etc. When his world collides with ...
Style:
erotic, serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gay slur, first gay sexual experience, gay bashing, gay erotica, homoeroticism, lgbt teen, closeted homosexual, lgbt, gang, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
britain
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48%
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Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested ...
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, independent film, manga, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, nude bathing, anti communist, family relations, children, young love, making love, communism, traumatic childhood, politics, youth, boy ...
Time:
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Place:
bosnia, serbia, eastern europe, europe, former yugoslavia
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Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, france
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48%
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Country: Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, talky, touching, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
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Similarity:
48%
612
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
year 1982, 80s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, homoerotic, art house, erotic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, male prostitute, friendship, homosexual, coming of age, unrequited love, male prostitution, male friendship, lgbt, homoerotic friendship, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place:
idaho, portland oregon, oregon, italy, rome italy ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, rough, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
woods, male nudity, friendship, teenage boy, rebellion, life is a bitch, social misfits, rebelliousness, youth, friends, escape from reality, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, independent film, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
year 1998, 80s, future, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, enigmatic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style:
sentimental, independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot:
female nudity, threesome, brothel, stoner, infidelity, working class, erection, midlife crisis, friendship, hopes, buddies, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
okinawa japan, san francisco
Similarity:
47%
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:
sexy, emotional, touching, depressing, meditative ...
Plot:
coma, coming of age, friendship, working class, love and romance, hopes, depression, couple relations, society, youth, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
france, flanders
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
grindhouse, independent film, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, friends, drinking, small town, deaf man, desire, stoner, highway, salesman, road trip, self discovery, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
arizona, usa, las vegas, tucson arizona, los angeles ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Focuses on a working class girl who is struggling to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.
Style:
independent film, sexual, black and white, depressing, talky ...
Plot:
coming of age, working class, kitchen sink realism, social realism, interracial relations, friendship, pregnant teenager, single mother, dysfunctional family, single parent, family relations, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
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, character study, aging, retirement home, justice, adolescence, reconciliation, elderly, magic ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 2008
Place:
england, europe, ireland, california
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, gender, love and romance, elderly, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california, los angeles, miami
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shot in and around the central Otago communities of Omakau, Ophir and Alexandra, A coming-of-age film that centers on overweight 12-year old Billy who is not interested in being a farmer and doesn't care for Rugby. His escape is the fantasy ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, feel good, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen fantasy
Plot:
childhood, friendship, lgbt, gay, bullying, youth, social misfits, gay relationship, rugby, coming of age, teenage life, teenage love ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Style:
captivating, psychological, touching, sentimental, indie film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, lgbt, family relations, gay, father son relationship, teenage boy, theft, husband wife relationship, marriage, birthday, fired from the job, domestic violence ...
Place:
new york state, brooklyn new york city, spain, philadelphia, new york
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47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
coming of age, gender, ambulance, effeminacy, self discovery, elderly, filmmaking, family relations, hollywood, teenage life, gay, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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