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Liar's Moon (1981)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. Over her father's strenuous objections, she spends time with Jack. At summer's end, Jack and Ginny elope to Louisiana (where 17-year-olds can marry without their parents' permission), and he gets a job in the oil fields. Her dad hires a menacing private eye to find them, Ginny's pregnant, her town doctor gives her horrible news, and Jack's mom has her own agenda. It seems that Jack and Ginny have grown up under a liar's moon. What will these sweethearts do?
Style:
independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, eighties, cult film, nostalgic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, teenage love, young lovers, teenager, young couple, coming of age, love, youth, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, fall in love, couples, teenage life, social differences, society, infidelity, single parent, small town, bittersweet, small town life, computers and web, female nudity, blonde, tragedy ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
texas, louisiana, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, youth, fall in love, family relations, society, love and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Liar's Moon: Endless Love (1981), The Man in the Moon (1991), That Night (1992), The Delinquents (1989), Under the Hawthorne Tree (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style:
erotic, intense, sexual, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, young lovers, first love, mental institution, arson, obsession, sex scene, mental illness, love, love story, voyeur ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
chicago, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, cute, romantic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, corporal punishment, skinny dipping, sister sister relationship, sibling relationship, first love, childhood, small town, unrequited love, female nudity, sisters, love ...
Time:
year 1957, 50s, 1950s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
southern usa, usa, louisiana, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
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teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, teenage pregnancy, bowling, young couple, summer, bullying, teenager, child protagonist, star crossed lovers, grief, girl, teen angst ...
Time:
year 1961, year 1992, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, sexual, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school romance, abortion, forbidden love, teenage love, runaway, welfare, sailor, baby, couples, family relations, small town, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu (Zhou Dong-Yu) is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San (Shawn Dou), a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, young lovers, social differences, revolution, youth, unfulfilled love, love and romance, society, fall in love, tragic love, true love, renaissance ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An awkward 13-year-old (Winona Ryder) leaves her cranky grandfather (Jason Robards) in rural Texas, to live with her mother (Jane Alexander) in Fort Worth.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
coming of age, young lovers, 13 year old, self harm, women, young love, estranged family member, intellectual disability, disabled child, family problems, couples, family relations ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, retro, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, desert, women, adolescence, mother daughter relationship, love, friendship, food, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
new mexico, usa, argentina, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
widow, unfaithfulness, small town, hospital, bittersweet, couples, social relations, family problems, family relations, love and romance, youth, society ...
Time:
80s, year 1997, 90s, 70s, 60s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, couples, family relations, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to ...
Style:
southern gothic, romantic drama, technicolor, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, railroad, mother daughter relationship, adolescence, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, boarding house, mental disorder, mother and daughter, deep south, swing, sad ending ...
Time:
1920s, year 1966, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, australia, tennessee, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
568
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young boy from a working-class family and a bored young girl from a rich family are falling in love. Soon, she's pregnant and the teenagers have to escape from their disapproving parents.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, teenage love, on the run, forbidden love, social differences, couples, lifestyle, youth, young lovers, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A rich college kid is taught a lesson after a joy ride ends up destroying a country restaurant.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
cancer, fall in love, teenage love, rich and poor, small town, terminal illness, love story, teenage life, social differences, youth, couples, class differences ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minnesota, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.
Style:
romantic drama, teen, romantic, intense, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, coming of age, teenager, young lovers, culture clash, relationships, high school, protective male, father daughter relationship, interracial love relationship, unhappiness, self destructing ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, freeze frame
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, teenage love, eccentric family, love and romance, countryside, teenage life, fall in love, parents and children, estate, bittersweet, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, couples, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, on the run, youth, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, rich and poor, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, class differences ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
100%
808
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Morocco, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Muslim girl and a Jewish boy fall in love.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, muslim, culture clash, coming of age, interracial relations, family relations, youth, society, interfaith relationship, couples, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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591
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Preppy and wealthy Whitt Sheffield is in his last semester of law school when a professor assigns him to act as an advocate for a young, single mother who needs help finding - and keeping - a job. Whitt, whose snooty father wants Whitt to follow him ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
single parent, law student, fall in love, couples, rich and poor, society, parents and children, law school, lawyers and clients, lawyer, social differences, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
college, friendship, disability, teenager, love, politics, opposites attract, college life, social relations, couples, power relations, youth ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
A boy and a girl who are friends from their childhood fight and break up during their school and college. They meet again at the age of 25 and fall in love.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, entertaining
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, true love, teenage love, wooing, parents and children, rejection, family relations, young lovers, youth, school, love, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1978, five teenagers in Shelbyville, Tennessee look to meet the actress Sondra Locke, who's rumored to return to town for the local premiere of her big Hollywood movie.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, teenage love, society, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, teenage life, parents and children, small town, suburbs, best friend ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
interracial relations, high school, couples, small town, social differences, looking for love, workplace romance, love affair, small town life, youth, self discovery, opposites attract ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, usa, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, love, deaf, starting over, boarding school, dealing with death, youth, single parent, hopes, love and romance, couples, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Shy Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance ...
Style:
sexy, sad, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, love triangle, young lovers, social differences, youth, society, love affair, family relations, parents and children, diary, love ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
love, sin, circus, society, fall in love, small town life, small town, social relations, human nature, pregnancy, beauty, theatrical troupe ...
Time:
50s, year 1992
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, world war two, hot and sexy, coming of age, longing, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, fascism, wartime, older woman younger man, dream girl, women ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 2000, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into any real trouble. Notorious enemy crew the Daggers, led by Tommy Hook, get their kicks ...
Style:
period piece, independent film, sentimental, colorful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
skateboard, rivalry, forbidden love, teenager, young lovers, gang, blonde, breakdance, competition, arson, brother sister relationship, street gang ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s
Place:
los angeles, southern california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, biting, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
chauffeur, racism, accidental death, black man white woman relationship, african american, lawyer, murder, black history, blaxploitation, blindness, courtroom, young couple ...
Time:
1940s, year 1986, 1930s
Place:
chicago, usa, ireland, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Director Franco Zeffirelli's beloved version of one of the most well-known love stories in the English language. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young ...
Style:
romantic, period piece, costume drama, sweet, colorful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
forbidden love, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, fall in love, family feud, love story, unfulfillment, parents and children, true love, love, medieval ...
Time:
1900s, year 1968, medieval times, 1930s
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, new york, england
Similarity:
100%
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