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Personal Velocity (2002)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style:
talky, stylized, intense, psychological, touching, sincere, serious, realistic, erotic, anthology ...
Plot:
starting over, abusive husband, hand job, adolescence, family relations, couples, hitchhiker, parents and children, love affair, human nature, couple relations, life is a bitch, self discovery, destructive relationship, sex scene, male female relationship, character study, mother son relationship, women, violence, book, runaway, drinking, marijuana, nudity ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, india, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, haiti, harvard university ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 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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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
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touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Reeling from her mother's recent death, Ruby Lee Gissing relocates to Florida to start anew. After finding a job at a souvenir store, Ruby becomes friends with the shop's owner, Mildred Chambers, and slowly acclimates to her new ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, road movie, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
self discovery, coming of age, friendship, bittersweet, drinking, desire, shoplifting, spring break, suburbs, feminist, girl power, women ...
Time:
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Place:
florida, tennessee, usa, tokyo, new jersey
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 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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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
boarding house, spinster, hotel, female nudity, desperation, piano, loneliness, psychopath, aging, mental disorder, nude girl, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, new york, usa ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, couples, estrangement, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance ...
Place:
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Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 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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Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
cannes, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, clever, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, erotic, stylized, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
marriage, unfaithful wife, infidelity, extramarital affair, lust, friendship, love quadrangle, love affair, adultery, betrayal, cheating, cheating on husband ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
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Time:
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Place:
new york, london, england, europe, usa
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Country: USA, Germany, Netherlands
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, talky, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, sincere, captivating, light, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Place:
san francisco
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, psychological, talky, anthology ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
ambiguous ending, crying
Plot:
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hungary, budapest
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Time:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, emotional, psychological
Plot:
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