Movies like Racing with the Moon

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Racing with the Moon (1984)
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Racing with the Moon (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.
Style: touching, sweet, sincere, realistic, sentimental, serious, cult classic, atmospheric, witty, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: friendship, coming of age, small town, character study, young lovers, unwanted pregnancy, self discovery, teenage life, love story, bowling, friendship between men, bittersweet, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female nudity, world war two, hunting, military service, abortion, male nudity, best friend, young love, bare chested male, youth, friends ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1943, 70s, 40s
Place: california, usa, new york
Keyword: movie theatre, doctors

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Most similar movies to Racing with the Moon

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and semi serious films with plots about coming of age, love and romance, love, friendship, youth, teenager and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Racing with the Moon: Mystic Pizza (1988), The Wood (1999), She's Having a Baby (1988), Going All the Way (1997), All the Real Girls (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
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95%
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The Wood (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, hood, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, wedding, high school, african american, black, hip hop, storytelling, homecoming, writers, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 80s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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94%
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, emotional, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pregnancy, parenthood, baby, marriage, self discovery, midlife crisis, wedding, voice over narration, husband wife relationship, argument, dream, aspiring writer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Going All the Way (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, love, youth, love and romance, looking for love, teenage love, marriage, homecoming, adolescence vs adulthood, small town life, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1997, 50s, year 1954
Place: indiana, indianapolis indiana, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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All the Real Girls (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In a small North Carolina town, Paul, a womanizer, meets Noel, a confused intellectual returning home for the first time in years since she left for boarding school. The film depicts the typical romance of a good girl and a bad boy, in an ...
Style: romantic, sexy, melancholic, independent film, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: womanizer, small town, coming of age, regret, existentialism, depression, love, crumbling relationship, introspection, human nature, relationships, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: north carolina, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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For Keeps? (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, coming of age, high school, unlikely friendships, justice, stereotypes, multiple storylines, underdog, happy ending, love story, depression ...
Time: 80s
Place: wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, school, friendship, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, best friend, sex, family relations, looking for sex, fall in love, teenage love, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: chicago, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Directed by Martin Davidson and Stephen Verona, The Lords of Flatbush is a low budget film starring Perry King, Henry Winkler and Sylvester Stallone (who also wrote additional dialog). Set in the late 1950s, the coming-of-age story follows four ...
Style: realistic, stylized, sentimental, intense, serious ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, adolescence, youth, human nature, friends, gang, self discovery, goofy hero, parents and children, buddies, crime gone awry ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
Style: sentimental, realistic, uplifting, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, youth, friendship, looking for love, hopes, teenage love, lifestyle, suburban life, love and romance, society, teenage life, summer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Say Anything... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler and high school valedictorian Diane Court is threatened when Diane's overly possessive, disapproving father interferes with their relationship. With a prized scholarship to study abroad ...
Style: feel good, sweet, light, romantic, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, couples, first love, youth, young love, opposites attract, love story, graduation, love and romance, boyfriend ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: seattle, england, washington state, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Where the Heart Is (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, ...
Style: feel good, touching, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: pregnancy, starting over, small town, coming of age, teenage pregnancy, single parent, friendship, youth, love and romance, power of love, family relations, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, tennessee, california, usa, mississippi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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The First Time (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, teenager, love, first love, love and romance, teenage love, first sex, teenage life, virginity, teenage girl, virgin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Nico and Dani (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
Style: stylized, realistic, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, coming of age, friendship between boys, gay teenager, friendship, self discovery, best friend, teenage love, innocence lost, lgbt, summer vacation, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Last American Virgin (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
Style: sexual, sexy, touching, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, teenager, friendship, sex, high school, prostitute, sex scene, looking for sex, contests and competitions, teenage love, adolescence, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Now and Then (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style: feel good, emotional, touching, teen, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, women, female friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, childhood, youth, teenager, teenage life, children, friends ...
Time: 90s, 70s, year 1991, year 1970, year 1995 ...
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Edge of Seventeen (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A gay teenager finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle U.S. in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
Style: teen, independent film, realistic, sexual, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, homosexuality, lgbt teen, coming of age, gays and lesbians, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, gay sex, high school, happy ending ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style: teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage pregnancy, stoner, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, youth, high school life, shopping mall, sex scene, loss of virginity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Mermaids (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old ...
Style: touching, sweet, teen, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, kids, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, single mother, teenager, love story, mother daughter relationship, young adult, father daughter relationship, loneliness, single parent, mother, fall in love ...
Time: 60s, 90s, year 1963, year 1964, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts, texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Ten Inch Hero (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four friends search for love and happiness while working at a California sandwich shop.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, witty, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: friends, friendship, looking for love, happy ending, love story, fall in love, shyness, self discovery, workplace, supportive coworker, hippie, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Tadpole (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from ...
Style: humorous, witty, sweet, talky, funny ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, coming of age, older woman teenage boy relationship, love and romance, female pedophile, adolescence, love, thanksgiving, friendship, obsession, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Cake Eaters (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy (Bruce Dern) tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg (Elizabeth Ashley). Eldest son and struggling musician Guy (Jayce Bartok) moves back to ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disability, family problems, young lovers, starting over, estrangement, haunted by the past, death in the family, small town life, teenage life, family life, homecoming, countryside ...
Time: year 2007
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
About Last Night... (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
Style: romantic, erotic, talky, sentimental, laugh out loud ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: love, friendship, brat pack, high school, sex, male nudity, bittersweet, nudity, dating, new year's eve, thanksgiving, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Reckless (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rebellious footballer Johnny, falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds; she's from a comfortable well off family, he is poor and broken. Tracy already has a boyfriend but he acts like a jerk, so Johnny has to win ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, eighties
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: cheerleader, sexy woman, american football, motorcycle, teenager, lovers on the run, biker, erotica, high school, sleaze, bike, love ...
Time: 80s
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
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 ...
Plot: coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, mother daughter relationship, love, women, friendship, adolescence, desert, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.7
 97K
Flipped (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: first love, fall in love, childhood, love and romance, young love, adolescence, teen romance, childhood sweetheart, school, teenage love, neighbor, unrequited love ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, 1950s, year 1957, year 1963 ...
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, friendship, small town, best friend, family relations, southern belle, wedding, strong female character, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, diabetic ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Man in the Moon (1991)
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, romantic, cute, period piece, sad ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, corporal punishment, first love, age difference, childhood, love story, love, sisters, small town, farm, bittersweet, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1991, year 1957, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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How to Deal (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mandy Moore stars as Halley, a young hip high school student who's convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand. Her ...
Style: romantic, sweet, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, teenage love, teenage pregnancy, wedding, true love, coming of age, pregnancy, bullying, love and romance, youth, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
All the Days Before Tomorrow (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wes is awakened in the middle of the night by an unexpected phone call. It’s Alison, the girl who could have been, who is flying home to Tokyo in the morning and wants to come by for a night of reminiscing before she goes.
Style: sincere, semi serious, talky, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, friendship, unfulfillment, introspection, destiny, hopes, male female relationship, travel, first love, human relationship, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, montreal, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 7.2
 67K
Moonstruck (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly, family outing
Plot: love story, female protagonist, dysfunctional family, love, couples, full moon, infidelity, love and romance, moon, self discovery, marriage proposal, marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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