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Picnic (2000)
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Picnic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: emotional, serious, tense, realistic
Plot: love triangle, americana, romance, small town, love and romance, couples, friendship, love affair, social differences, small town life, fall in love, rivalry, society, social relations, friends, lifestyle, beauty queen, stranger
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: kansas, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, romance, society, friendship, love triangle and fall in love mostly in Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Picnic: Splendor in the Grass (1961), Violets Are Blue... (1986), Dawson's Creek (1998), Nothing But a Man (1964), Home and Away (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Splendor in the Grass (1961)
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Splendor in the Grass
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Style: emotional, realistic, sexual, sentimental, serious ...
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Time: 1930s, 20s, 20th century, 1920s, 1950s
Place: kansas, usa, california, yale university, connecticut
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Violets Are Blue... (1986)
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Violets Are Blue...
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie (Spacek), a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up
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Dawson's Creek (1998)
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Dawson's Creek
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series created by Kevin Williamson which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, at EUE/Screen Gems studios ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, touching
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Time: contemporary, 90s, 20th century, 21st century, 1990s ...
Place: massachusetts, usa, boston
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Nothing But a Man (1964)
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Nothing But a Man
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Style: serious, thought provoking, realistic, clever, emotional ...
Plot: americana, interracial relations, discrimination, romance, small town, life is a bitch, society, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, working class, love and romance ...
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Place: alabama, usa, united states
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Duration: 22 min.
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Crazy from the Heart
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: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching
Audience: date night
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This Property Is Condemned (1966)
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This Property Is Condemned
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 ...
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Listen to Me
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Duration: 107 min.
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Lovin' Molly
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Swann
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Melrose Place
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Empty Days
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Summer and Smoke (1961)
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Summer and Smoke
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The Young and the Restless (1973)
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The Young and the Restless
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The Bold and the Beautiful
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The Affair
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Circle of Friends
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Ordinary Sinner
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Claire of the Moon (1992)
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Claire of the Moon
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Style: serious, talky, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Jungle Fever (1991)
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Jungle Fever
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