Movies like The Other Side of Sunday

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The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
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The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Original name: Søndagsengler
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Other Side of Sunday, also known in Norwegian as "Søndagsengler", is a movie that criticizes the small, and often tight, church community. We follow the Preacher's Daughter, Maria, on her journey to liberate herself from the stiff church community and her father.
Style: atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, sexual, sentimental, road movie, sexy, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, church, teenage girl, religion, father daughter relationship, rebellion, teenager, parents, atheism, woman, friendship between girls, nudity, dancing, father, female sexuality, radio, mother daughter relationship, atheist, daughter, teenage sexuality, menstruation, patriarch, sister sister relationship, sexual awakening, sermon ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: europe, scandinavia, japan, tokyo
Keyword: norway, norwegian, lying in bed, jewish, dreams, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about youth, coming of age, family relations, teenage life, friendship, parents and children and teenage girl mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Other Side of Sunday: Just Looking (1999), Murmur of the Heart (1971), Girls Can't Swim (2000), The Go-Getter (2007), Kick'n Rush (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Just Looking (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it," so he dedicates his summer to seeing two other people do it. Easier said than done. Caught in the act of spying, his mother and ...
Style: sexy, touching, sexual, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: voyeurism, coming of age, voyeur, teenager, nudity, youth, obsession, friendship, infidelity, older woman younger man, coitus, nurse ...
Time: year 1999, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1955
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.
Style: sexy, disturbing, touching, sentimental, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: incest, mother son incest, coming of age, sexual initiation, oedipus complex, mother son relationship, sex, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, love, incestuous sex ...
Time: 1950s, year 1971, year 1954, 20th century, 50s
Place: france, israel, europe, indochina, paris france
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89%
Girls Can't Swim (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is ...
Style: realistic, sincere, disturbing, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, lesbian subtext, teenage life, lifestyle, human nature, dysfunctional family, betrayal, teenage love, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, france, brittany
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100%
The Go-Getter (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
Style: road movie, melancholic, ironic, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: road trip, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, parents and children, introspection, love and romance, human nature, lifestyle, obsessive quest, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2007
Place: oregon, new orleans, reno nevada
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Kick'n Rush (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, youth, buddies, society, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Place: europe, denmark
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100%
Cousins in Love (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenage Julien (Thierry Tevini) loves his teenage cousin Julia (Anja Shute) among flowers in summer of '39 France.
Style: sexy, sexual, sensual, romantic, controversial ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: erotica, incest, sexual relations, cousin cousin relationship, coming of age, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, voyeurism, youth, loss of virginity, love triangle ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939
Place: france, europe
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67%
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Housekeeping (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style: sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
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100%
The Elementary School (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also ...
Style: surreal, realistic, semi serious, touching, feel good ...
Plot: world war two, self discovery, communist, boy, education, renaissance, love letter, teacher, friendship, unfaithfulness, pregnancy, licking ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1946, post world war two
Place: eastern europe, czech republic, europe, czechoslovakia, prague
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100%
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Acne (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, Mexico, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: At the age of 13, Rafael Bregman has already lost his virginity, but has never kissed a girl. With his pimple-riddled face, his dysfunctional family, and a lowered self-esteem, getting this much anticipated first kiss proves trickier than expected. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, sex comedy ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage sexuality, loss of virginity, teenage boy, lifestyle, society, youth, sexual awakening, friendship, self discovery, family relations, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time: 21st century
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Skyskraber (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jon is 17. He lives in the midst of a claustrophobic world which once seemed destined to become a seething metropolis of high-rise tower blocks and intersections until one day an absurd traffic accident occurs. At the time, Jon was made responsible. ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: teenage love, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, family relations, parents and children, rebellion, fall in love, love and romance, rebelliousness, social relations, defloration, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, scandinavia
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31%
Peppermint Soda (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, school, jewish girl, female protagonist, political protest, friendship, high school, children, woman, relationships, suicide, troubled relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Young and Wild (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
Style: sexual, serious, captivating, sensual, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bisexual girl, teenage life, sexual awakening, bisexual, teenage girl, teenage sex, sex, teenage sexuality, sexual exploration, lesbian, oral sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
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30%
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This film is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's quest ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: youth, friendship, coming of age, family relations, misfit, eccentric family, switching roles, self discovery, social relations, friends, fish out of water, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, south australia, adelaide south australia, israel
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Paradise (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After surviving a plane crash a young conservative woman suffers a crisis of faith.
Style: realistic, cynical, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: self discovery, friendship, coming of age, church, female protagonist, car accident, society, radical, bartender, prostitute, plane crash, conservative ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas
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Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, couple relations, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, seattle
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The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
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Saved! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenage Mary Cummings, who has "been Born Again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore with her Fundamentalist Christian friends Hilary Faye and Veronica, the three of whom ...
Style: touching, independent film, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, coming of age, gay, youth, friendship, pregnant girl, satire, teenager, atheism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, xian, baltimore, california
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Alex in Wonder (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.
Style: sincere, light, entertaining, humorous, twisted ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, sex, love and romance, sexual relations, teenage life, teenage love, parents and children, artists and showbiz, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teen angst, father daughter relationship, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
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Puberty Blues (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney.Meet Sue, a teenage Australian girl in the late 70s, whose life mainly consists of doing what everyone else does - watch the surfing boys and have sex with the same ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, anamorphic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenage sexuality, lifeguard, surf, exodus, drug abuse, coming of age, beach, teen drinking, family relations, couples, kids in trouble, friends ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: sydney australia, australia
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, homecoming, misfit, teenage girl, fame, teenager, puppy love, celebrity, worship, teenage rebellion, family relations, small town life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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Forbidden Fruit (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, friendship between girls, best friend, teenage life, conservatism, conservative morals, religion, lifestyle, youth, fish out of water, culture clash ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: helsinki finland, europe, finland
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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
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The Ketchup Effect (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager's reputation is destroyed when she falls asleep drunk at a party and some boys take provocative photos of her.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, high school, social relations, friendship, teenage life, first sex, sexual relations, coming of age, party, reconciliation, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, europe
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Mumu (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: boarding school, hardcase students, boarding school life, children, childhood, teachers and students, mischievous children, rebellion, youth, family relations, disorder, power relations ...
Time: 1940s, 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Tunisia, France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old ...
Style: erotic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, bathhouse, circumcision, nudity, female nudity, sexual awakening, turkish bath, arab, youth, boy, erotica, sensuality ...
Time: 80s
Place: tunisia, middle east, africa
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Caterina in the Big City (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an ambient extremely divided politically.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot: youth, friendship, fish out of water, social differences, teenage life, lifestyle, society, politics, human nature, hopes, city life, school ...
Time: 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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Cougars Inc. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When Sam learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.
Style: semi serious, touching, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, escort, infidelity, milf, older woman teenage boy relationship, friendship, boarding school, parents and children, teenage love, youth, dysfunctional marriage, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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You're My Hero (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, friendship, first love, teenage life, society, idealism, snitch, high school, teachers and students, parents and children, clergy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: spain
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How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.
Style: sexy, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, looking for love, parents and children, family life, teenage life, lifestyle, society, family in crisis, mother daughter relationship, loneliness, women, family relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
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Tumbleweeds (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style: touching, road movie, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mother daughter relationship, asthma, friendship, loneliness, on the road, self discovery, human nature, starting over, single mother, family problems, single parent, love and romance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: california, arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico, south carolina ...
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