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Square Dance (1987)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An awkward 13-year-old (Winona Ryder) leaves her cranky grandfather (Jason Robards) in rural Texas, to live with her mother (Jane Alexander) in Fort Worth.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
coming of age, women, young love, estranged family member, countryside, disabled child, intellectual disability, youth, misfit, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, couples, dysfunctional family, love affair, teenage life, young lovers, society, family problems, social misfits, starting over, single parent, small town, city life, social relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and sentimental films with plots about youth, love and romance, family relations, coming of age, couples, parents and children and teenage life mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Square Dance: The Black Balloon (2008), Set Me Free (1999), Liar's Moon (1981), Once in a Lifetime (1994), What Girls Learn (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas finds Charlie an ...
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Audience:
teens
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coming of age, teenager, mental illness, social services, eccentric family, acceptance, love and romance, human nature, autism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, birthday, birthday party ...
Time:
future, 90s, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Switzerland, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age tale centered around Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1963, Hannah develops a fascination with Jean-Luc Godard's then-recent film "Vivre sa vie". As she begins to model herself after ...
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stylized, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
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teens, pre-teens
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coming of age, child molestation, lesbian, dysfunctional family, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian teen, sex crime, gender, bad father, children, woman ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, quebec, montreal
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, teenage love, teenager, coming of age, love, small town life, teenage life, small town, computers and web, infidelity, social differences, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
louisiana, texas, usa
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34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, couples, family relations, family problems, pregnancy, death in the family, parents and children, boarding school life ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, couples, estrangement, family problems, human nature, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
georgia, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrants, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
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sincere, emotional, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, opposites attract, family relations, friends, immigrants, love and romance, introspection, youth, single parent, coming of age, friendship ...
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25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
single parent, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, society ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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:
realistic, touching, sexy, poignant, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, waitress, small town, truancy, love, women, mother daughter relationship, friendship, desert, bittersweet, single mother, sexualized violence ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new mexico, argentina, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, midlife crisis, starting over, love triangle, breakup, working class, dysfunctional family, love affair, human nature, hopes, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
washington state, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, coming of age, bowling, summer, bullying, teenager, father, teenage girl, rock and roll, self discovery, pregnancy, teen angst ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, australia, tennessee, usa, new orleans
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23%
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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, feel good, sweet, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, women, love story, loneliness, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, single parent, fall in love, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, 20th century, year 1963
Place:
usa, new england, massachusetts, dallas texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive stepfather. The three soon become friends and hope to get Alice an education and help her escape from ...
Style:
romantic, realistic, serious, touching, inspirational
Plot:
deaf, mentally challenged, rescue, youth, friendship, dysfunctional family, child abuse, great depression, countryside, happy ending, coming of age, family relations ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A widow named Harriet and her two children Carrie and Brian are living in rural New York in 1947 and are still recovering from the death of Harriet's husband killed in World War II. Carrie is a tomboy and hangs around with boys and they have ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic
Plot:
youth, mentally challenged, countryside, wooing, prank, self discovery, dysfunctional family, hopes, family problems, couples, society, human nature ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
patient, twins, memory, hospital, terminal illness, couples, family relations, family problems, unfulfillment, coming of age, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
youth, self discovery, family life, society, family problems, parents and children, disability, small town life, child's point of view, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
waitress, dream, food, alien contact, family relations, small town, hopes, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, love and romance, self discovery, dull life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, coming of age, pregnancy, small town, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, single parent, youth, teenage life, human nature, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
widow, hospital, small town, bittersweet, family problems, couples, social relations, family relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, youth, society ...
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80s, 60s, 70s, 90s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
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touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Carson McCullers' classic play.
Style:
realistic, gloomy, touching, emotional, serious
Plot:
wedding, running away from home, tomboy, housekeeper, youth, runaway, coming of age, escape, innocence lost, melancholy, hotel, perfume ...
Time:
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Place:
georgia
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20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
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Time:
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Place:
south carolina, canada, north carolina, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
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Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ...
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of Violet Markey and Theodore Finch, who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home life deteriorates in his absence.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
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Place:
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
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Audience:
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Time:
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