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Picnic (2000)
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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:
serious, emotional, realistic, tense
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, social differences, friendship, romance, fall in love, couples, rivalry, society, lifestyle, social relations, small town, stranger, beauty queen, friends, love and romance, americana, small town life, wealthy family
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, romance, couples, love affair, fall in love, love triangle and society mostly in Drama, Romance and Action genres. Some movies like Picnic: This Property Is Condemned (1966), Summer and Smoke (1961), Circle of Friends (1995), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Loving Leah (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, betrayal, family relations, revenge, infidelity, forbidden love, social differences, siblings relations, love affair, fall in love, parents and children ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, australia, usa, tennessee, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door. A 1961 film, adapted from a Tennessee Williams play, starring Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, John McIntire, Una Merkel and Rita ...
Style:
emotional, gloomy, realistic, serious, neurotic
Plot:
small town, repression, family relations, love triangle, spinster, unfulfilled love, social relations, couples, longing, small town life, adult virgin, world war one ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
mississippi, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
college, small town, romance, coming of age, pregnancy, betrayal, friendship, love affair, college life, youth, orphan, abortion ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
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100%
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, sentimental, captivating, tense, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, basketball, small town life, romance, unrequited love, americana, teenage love, small town, repression, childhood sweetheart, young lovers ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 50s, 70s
Place:
kansas, usa, new york, yale university, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, touching
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
marriage of convenience, cardiologist, romance, couples, death in the family, society, religions or cults, love and romance, fall in love, family tradition, family relations, jewish woman ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
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459
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
adultery, fall in love, love affair, family relations, love triangle, parents and children, couples, dishonesty, romance, last wish, infidelity, funeral ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
hawaii, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, love triangle, friendship, old love, waitress, working class, romance, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, hopes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, texas, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Takua Pa is a small town in the South of Thailand. Ever since the tsunami, people have lost their jobs and remember better times in the past. One day a stranger comes to town. His name is Ton, he is an architect. He rents a room in a small hotel ...
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot:
tsunami, love affair, romance, couples, fall in love, social relations, small town, hotel, seaside town, secret, small town life, family relations ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, fall in love, romance, destiny, high school, bittersweet, family relations, photojournalist, friends, couples, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
future, 80s, 70s
Place:
maryland, san francisco, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative
Plot:
friendship, opposites attract, politics, college life, love, college, young lovers, society, youth, contests and competitions, ambition, hopes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, non-linear
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, love triangle, social differences, youth, romance, fall in love, society, love affair, young lovers, family relations, diary, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 60s, 20th century
Place:
korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, sexy ...
Plot:
small town, skydiving, love triangle, couples, love and romance, friends, rivalry, escapades, infidelity, small town life, parachute, sex scene ...
Time:
60s
Place:
kansas, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Melissa Gilbert stars in this film adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, in which a young girl named Pip and her mother meet an artist on the beach in Safe Harbour, where they have retreated in order to recover from the devastating ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
love affair, haunted by the past, starting over, lifestyle, hopes, love and romance, romance, couples, fall in love, embezzlement, serial killer, jealousy ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Flashbacks and flash-forwards illustrate the rise and fall of a love affair between two New Yorkers.
Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, non-linear
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, fall in love, love affair, sexual content, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, breakup, bittersweet, romance, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
asthma, romance, love affair, fall in love, self discovery, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couples, womanizer, novelist, society, sexual content ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.
Style:
realistic, serious, sexy, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
love triangle, unfulfilled love, social differences, fall in love, society, master and servant, power relations, love and romance, couples, love affair, rich and poor, cinderella story ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Cop drama meets romance: This intense thriller is about a police officer who shoots his best friend (who also wears a badge) while on the job. His buddy is permanently paralyzed, and the incident raises eyebrows around the precinct. Was it an ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, forbidden love, couples, dishonesty, romance, best friends, infidelity, disability, husband wife relationship, adultery, police officer ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
date night
Plot:
high school, interracial relations, couples, small town, workplace romance, small town life, fall in love, self discovery, looking for love, social differences, love affair, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
romance, fall in love, homecoming, small town, human nature, love affair, couples, soldier, infidelity, husband wife relationship, wedding, marriage ...
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
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:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
love, circus, sin, romance, society, fall in love, small town, small town life, social relations, pregnancy, human nature, jealousy ...
Time:
50s
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
hip hop, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, social differences, lovers reunited, tragic love, unfulfilled love, love affair, infidelity, showbiz, society ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, widow, farm, friendship, friends, couples, small town, small town life, couple relations, fall in love, love and romance, romance ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 60s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.
Style:
realistic, serious, sexy, sexual
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, infidelity, aging, romance, opposites attract, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, love and romance, dishonesty, family problems, couples ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious
Plot:
tragic love, love affair, romance, love triangle, infidelity, sexual content, society, social differences, state affairs, political unrest, anti semitism, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Distraught after he overhears his two 30-something lovers talking about finding a new "toy" to replace him, young Ricky looks for love through a series of random sexual encounters while house-sitting for the couple over the Christmas ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, emotional, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
gay interest, romance, love triangle, couples, love affair, gender, lifestyle, city life, student, christmas, sex scene, friendship ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
social differences, political unrest, haunted by the past, homecoming, injustice, social relations, society, romance, working class, teenage life, corrupt law enforcer, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
island, lighthouse, love triangle, fall in love, love affair, dishonesty, romance, love of one's life, family secret, village, storm, friendship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, atlantic ocean, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, unemployment, infidelity, love affair, fall in love, friends, couples, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, romance, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sentimental ...
Plot:
countryside, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, haunted by the past, romance, farm, small town, society, prostitute, pimp ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops ...
Style:
serious, psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, fall in love, obsession, infidelity, family problems, family relations, unfulfillment, small town, social differences, teacher, couples ...
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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