Movies like The Virgin Suicides
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)
185K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style:
sexy, gothic, teen, sad, depressing, aesthetic, erotic, realistic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
suburbs, suicide, depression, suicide attempt, coming of age, overbearing parent, dysfunctional family, teenage life, suicidal, friendship, suburban life, sisters, teen suicide, psychology, family problems, siblings relations, adolescence, innocence lost, teenager, illness, literary, alienation, first love, love, high school ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century, contemporary
Place:
detroit, michigan, yale university
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Most similar movies to The Virgin Suicides
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, touching and independent film films with plots about coming of age, relationships, teenager, youth, dialogue, loneliness and drinking mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Virgin Suicides: Girl, Interrupted (1999), Palo Alto (2013), Before Sunset (2004), Never Let Me Go (2010), American Beauty (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
95%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, teen, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage life, youth, teenager, teenage girl, crush, loneliness, high school life, high school, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
california, palo alto california, britain, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
88%
312K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for ...
Style:
sad, melancholic, depressing, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot:
dystopia, boarding school, existentialism, distopia, childhood, cloning, sadness, friendship, transplant, couples, love story, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1978, 2010s, 50s, year 2010, 70s ...
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, sexual, dark comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional marriage, youth, adultery, suburbs ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
usa, america, los angeles, iran
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, sexy, teen, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, depression, coming of age, college, teenage girl, suicide attempt, university, therapy, female nudity, borderline personality disorder, drug, adolescence ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place:
harvard university, austin texas
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, crying, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, therapy, suicide attempt, suicide, grief, coming of age, depression, psychiatrist, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, loner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, houston texas, middle east ...
Similarity:
83%
141K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style:
realistic, sexy, period piece, costume drama, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lolita, teenage life, teenager, love, self discovery, direction and purpose, older man young girl relationship, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 1900s, 60s, year 1961
Place:
london, paris france, france, united kingdom, britain ...
Similarity:
100%
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10K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
Style:
teen, touching, realistic, sincere, spectacular ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teacher, feminism, teenage girl, girl gang, high school, lesbian, attempted rape, sexual harassment, abusive father, rebellion, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
portland oregon, california
Similarity:
100%
101K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar ...
Style:
witty, visually appealing, touching, surreal, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, teenage love, teenager, school, high school, virginity, high school life, youth, teen angst, rock, social relations ...
Time:
year 2010, 80s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
wales, england, britain
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Style:
sad, emotional, romantic, teen, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, teenage love, dying, youth, love and romance, relationships, last wish, fighting illness, dealing with death, virginity ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
brighton, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her ...
Style:
disturbing, poignant, depressing, heartbreaking, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
teenage girl, power relations, cheerleading, teachers and students, teacher student relationship, dysfunctional family, depression, innocence lost, family in crisis, character study, complex characters, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
ohio, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, funeral, older woman younger man relationship, eccentricity, misfit, old age, alienation, age difference, couples, cemetery, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1971
Place:
california, san francisco, bay area, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sad, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, love story, freak, love and romance, social misfits, teenage girl, garden, inventor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, surreal, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, friendship, obsession, lgbtq, teenager, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, coming of age, lesbian romance, sapphic, murder, sexuality ...
Time:
1950s, year 1994, 90s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
new zealand, oceania, australia, canada
Similarity:
100%
32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style:
touching, psychological, independent film, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage girl, rape, bullying, youth, rape victim, school, teenage life, innocence lost, teenager, unsupportive friend, high school life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style:
romantic, touching, romantic comedy, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, love, family drama, bipolar disorder, depression, adaptation, character study, social misfits, supportive parent, father son relationship, male female friendship, mental patient ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, peru, usa, pennsylvania, america ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her ...
Style:
depressing, cerebral, realistic, sexual, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, coming of age, snow, extramarital affair, mate swapping, adultery, sexual awakening, swinger, infidelity, parenthood, virgin ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, year 1997, year 1973
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
67%
Movie in collections
74K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, controversial, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
obsession, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, lolita, pedophile, girl man relationship, age difference, teenage girl, lust, nymphet, older man young girl relationship, love affair ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1947 ...
Place:
cannes, new england
Similarity:
50%
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 ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, teenage love, love story, youth, teenage life, first love, dealing with death, illness, adolescence ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Style:
emotional, independent film, serious, talky, intellectual ...
Plot:
wedding, dysfunctional family, drug addiction, favoritism among siblings, addiction, wedding preparations and rituals, marriage, sisters, junkie, anorexia, character study, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa, hawaii, canada, california
Similarity:
100%
48K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
Style:
art house, independent film, meditative, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, luxury hotel, character study, male nudity, estranged father, hotel, loneliness, parent child relationship, swimming pool, actor, obsession, family relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, italy, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style:
touching, funny, sentimental, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatric ward, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, suicidal, psychiatry, anxiety ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
50%
Movie in collections
19K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A powerful and emotional coming of age story, this remarkable tale is told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, sexy, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, love, sadness, teenage love, death, coming of age, cancer, brain tumor, hot and sexy, teenager, funeral ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
32%
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:
touching, sad, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, small town, adolescence, love story, sexual repression, mental illness, teenager, suicide attempt, unrequited love, high school football, true love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, future ...
Place:
kansas, yale university, new york, connecticut, usa ...
Similarity:
50%
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 ...
Style:
sweet, romantic, uplifting, teen, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, young adult, true love, love story, interracial romance, mental illness, love and romance, teen romance, coming of age, love affair, teenage crush, traumatic experience ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.
Style:
melancholic, teen, sweet, witty, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage love, sexual relations, teenage life, coming of age, teenager, love, love triangle, male teacher female student affair, small town, depression, teacher student romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
141K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, erotic drama, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
incest, sexuality, protest, sexual relations, sex, nudity, youth, couples, love triangle, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, sex scene ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style:
melancholic, depressing, touching, sad, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, disability, small town, mentally challenged, mental illness, self discovery, responsibility, brothers, character study, coming of age, life philosophy, life & death ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, 70s, 60s
Place:
iowa, texas, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style:
romantic, sexy, poignant, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, lovers, happy ending, forceful separation, couple relations, lovers apart, bittersweet, relationships, love and romance, immigration ...
Time:
year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, usa, los angeles, london, england ...
Similarity:
30%
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