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Stateside (2004)
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Stateside (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, romantic, romantic drama, freeze frame
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, fall in love, love affair, teenage life, military life, youth, prank, basic training, coming of age, sex, rape, female nudity, blonde, stripper, teenage girl, dancer, bare breasts, gang rape, nightclub, gang bang, strip club, no bra, nudity, dance ...
Time: year 2004, year 1980, contemporary
Place: new york, california, naples italy, connecticut, north carolina, south carolina, new york state ...
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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 sex, love and romance, singer, singing, dancing, kiss and drinking mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Stateside: The Hottest State (2006), Whirlygirl (2006), A Slipping-Down Life (1999), Forty Shades of Blue (2005), Permanent Record (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hottest State (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: musician, sexuality, love affair, youth, couple relations, fall in love, young lovers, actor's life, musician's life, lifestyle, actor, living together ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city ...
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Whirlygirl (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a run in with a hot exotic dancer one wintry night straight-laced prep school student James will find himself on the ride of his life. Risking his future he follows this mysterious woman to New York City - ditching school dodging cops and ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, light, sex comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: exotic dancer, older woman younger man relationship, college, teenage love, infatuation, love and romance, social differences, dancer, lifestyle, teenage life, bare butt, society ...
Place: new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
A Slipping-Down Life (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Style: touching, feel good, captivating, sincere, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: groupie, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, lifestyle, rock, opposites attract, musician's life, singer, infatuation, art, obsession ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: north carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, couples, parents and children, couple relations, fall in love ...
Place: usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Permanent Record (1988)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves ...
Style: cult classic, realistic, emotional, touching, retro ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, suicide, coming of age, grief, teenager, loss, friendship, runaway, death, drinking, mental illness, career ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.5
 759
Clara and Me (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot: couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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West of Here (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car accident. Gil ignores his father's disapproval and takes the family's antique truck for ...
Style: road movie, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: truck, on the road, starting over, love and romance, midlife crisis, haunted by the past, pickup truck, father son relationship, music, renewed love, car accident, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, california, usa, san francisco, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Things Behind the Sun (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: rape, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, forced sexual contact, gang rape, teenage girl, rapist, journalist, musician's life, memory, secret, coping ...
Place: florida, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break ...
Style: erotic, sweet, romantic, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional marriage, obsession, small town, sex scene, adultery, love, working class, rich and poor, teenage girl, family relations, family feud ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: illinois, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.0
 92K
The Last Song (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.
Style: touching, romantic, serious, teen, emotional ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: fall in love, love, teenage love, teenage life, father daughter relationship, youth, teen romance, love and romance, parents and children, love story, cancer, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: georgia, north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Farewell Amor (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Reunited after a 17 year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help overcome the ...
Style: melancholic, disturbing, romantic, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: missing mother, husband wife relationship, adultery, love, friendship, family relations, loneliness, teenage girl, father daughter reunion, father daughter relationship, emigration, absent husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, africa, usa, tanzania, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Very Good Girls (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, loss of virginity, female friendship, friendship, youth, wooing, love and romance, teenage life, love triangle, teenage sexuality ...
Time: year 1992, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, wisconsin, tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.2
 555
Free Radicals (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: love affair, teenage life, introspection, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, love and romance, youth, destructive relationship, hopes, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, europe, brazil, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: racism, culture clash, forbidden love, immigrant, prejudice, marriage, immigration, family relations, love, society, tragic love, social commentary ...
Time: year 2004
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, britain, manchester, pakistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 537
Roseland (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, dance, disco, love and romance, contests and competitions, dancer's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Chopin: Desire for Love (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: composer, biopic, prodigy, musician's life, lifestyle, love affair, couples, destructive relationship, fall in love, society, chess, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1830s
Place: poland, vienna, mallorca, warsaw poland, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
Style: atmospheric, touching, mumblecore, realistic, serious ...
Plot: musician, plot twist, transformation, firefly, love, death, jazz, memory, saxophonist, murder, couples, love and romance ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, dublin ireland, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Best of Youth (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 374 min.
Story: Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: idealism, society, couples, cafe, sister in law sister in law relationship, friendship, mental illness, storytelling, musician, protest, politics, police brutality ...
Time: 60s, 80s, year 2003, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: italy, lebanon, europe, turin italy, denmark ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Dirty Dancing (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
Style: feel good, sexy, sentimental, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: love story, dancing, coming of age, couples, forbidden love, summer, summer romance, youth, love and romance, fall in love, dance, unlikely couple ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
God Help the Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: anorexia, mental illness, friendship, music band, pop music, music, friends, self discovery, musician's life, blonde, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: year 1969, year 1981, 20th century, 21st century
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland, edinburgh scotland
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41%
 6.7
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Center Stage (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Style: teen, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: dance, dancing, ballet, love triangle, music, teenager, homosexual, gay, competition, love and romance, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, year 2000
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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40%
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, emotional, retro ...
Plot: hollywood, coming of age, showbiz, rise and fall, family relations, lifestyle, human nature, ambition, rising to stardom, rags to riches, secret relationship, tomboy ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1936
Place: california, los angeles, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: hotel, boarding house, spinster, female nudity, desperation, loneliness, piano, mental disorder, psychopath, aging, betrayal, bittersweet ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, america, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Sylvie's Love (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
Style: romantic, captivating, emotional, period drama
Plot: love, music, black, african american, black history, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, male female relationship, musician, love and romance, relationships ...
Time: 2020s, year 1957, 1950s, 60s, year 1967 ...
Place: new york, detroit, manhattan new york city, harlem, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.9
 57K
Head-On (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style: psychological, depressing, bleak, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, marriage, immigrant, culture clash, love story, relationships, loneliness, sex, love affair, drug, self esteem, self destructing ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.7
 916
American Son (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, hispanic ...
Plot: fall in love, family relations, thanksgiving, family gatherings, marine, soldier, self discovery, love and romance, society, homecoming, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Twist and Shout (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, female nudity, traumatic childhood, age difference, adolescence, older woman younger man, family relations, pregnancy, friendship, dating, hide and seek, friends ...
Time: 80s, 60s, year 1963
Place: antwerp, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Good Mother (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: courtroom drama, divorce, women, children, lawyer, love, friendship, sex, father daughter relationship, piano, sculptor, sex crime ...
Time: 80s
Place: connecticut, maine, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.2
 94K
Crazy Heart (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an ...
Style: touching, romantic, depressing, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: musician, country music, loneliness, alcoholism, addiction, music, journalist, country singer, alcohol abuse, love and romance, alcoholic, love ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, texas, austin texas, usa, nashville tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Song for Martin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, infidelity, couple relations, couples, love affair, violin, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life, crumbling marriage, fall in love, family problems ...
Time: year 2001
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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