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A Girl at My Door (2014)
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A Girl at My Door (2014)
Original name: 도희야
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Do-Hee experiences family violence. Young-Nam works as the head of the police substation. She tries to protect Do-Hee from her violent stepfather Yong-Ha. Though Do-Hee looks naive, she hides a secret. Young-Nam becomes involved in a case with her life at stake.
Style: psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, social, gloomy, queer cinema
Audience: chick flick
Plot: child abuse, lesbian, lgbt, small town, adult child friendship, father daughter relationship, lesbian relationship, obsession, law enforcement, policewoman, children, police, physical abuse, alcoholic father, incest, lgbtq, teenager, gay, secret service, schoolgirl, parents, gays and lesbians, asian, woman, lgbtqi ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: korea, south korea, indiana, asia
Keyword: korean, signature

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, serious, psychological and realistic films with plots about lgbt, lesbian, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, lesbian relationship, lesbian interest and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like A Girl at My Door: Hope (2013), A Brand New Life (2009), Take Care of My Cat (2001), Pariah (2011), To the Stars (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hope (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
Style: disturbing, uplifting, heartbreaking, sad, suspenseful ...
Plot: trial, child, hopes, sexual assault, recovery, victim, father daughter relationship, hospital, child abuse, rapist, surgery, psychotherapist ...
Place: korea, east asia, south korea
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A Brand New Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: children, orphan, youth, adoption, dysfunctional family, family relations, hopes, parents and children, girl, child abandonment, abandoned by father, family problems ...
Time: year 2009, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: korea, south korea, seoul, asia
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Take Care of My Cat (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer ...
Style: lyrical, psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, adulthood, cat, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, seoul
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Pariah (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, african american, lesbian teen, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, black lesbian, black, introspection ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
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To the Stars (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Under small-town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
Style: sentimental, psychological, melancholic, sexy, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, closeted lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, abusive father, sexual confusion, gay love, opposites attract, love and romance, lesbianism, love ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
Place: oklahoma
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White Night (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Flight attendant Won-Gyu (Won Tae-Hee) left Korea 2 years ago with painful memories and now comes back. Won-Gyu meets Tae-Joon (Lee Yi-Kyung), who is a quick service delivery man and has a special night with him.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: lgbt, male homosexuality, revenge, gay, haunted by the past, introspection, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, gender, society, gays and lesbians, gay bashing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul, korea, asia
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House of Hummingbird (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Whatever she does, Eunhee feels like an outsider. Then her new Chinese teacher turns out to be so utterly different from everybody else. A compassionate and meticulously told narrative of a seemingly regular summer that leaves nothing unchanged.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, teacher student relationship, female protagonist, teenager, relationships, middle school, personal growth, high school, teenage girl, family relations, adolescence, family problems ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: seoul, south korea, korea, asia
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52 Tuesdays (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, captivating, rough ...
Plot: teenage girl, gender, coming of age, transsexual, lgbt, family relations, disorder, youth, parents and children, transgender, lgbtq, realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, san francisco, antarctica
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So Hard to Forget (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, deep ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, starting over, haunted by the past, gender, breakup, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, lesbian love, depression, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Glass Room (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.
Style: touching, psychological, romantic, emotional, talky ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, lesbianism, love, lesbian interest, lgbt, family relations, lesbian teen, lgbtq, love affair ...
Time: 1930s
Place: central europe
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The Mountain (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 73 min.
Story: This is the story of Nora and Solveig, a grief-stricken couple on a hike through the mountain range where they had a traumatic experience two years prior. Nora and Solveig are hiking through a snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: mountain, lesbian relationship, lesbian, hopes, introspection, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, couple relations, dealing with death, gender, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, scandinavia
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My Days of Mercy (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
Style: sad, serious, psychological, romantic drama, deep ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, sister sister relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, death penalty, sapphic, lgbtq, protestor, brother sister relationship ...
Place: usa, indiana
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A Woman Like Eve (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Eve lives with her husband Ad and two children somewhere in Amsterdam. Eve seems reasonably happy although she sometimes has the feeling that there's something missing in her life. Her husband – thinking Eve is depressed – sends her on a ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, lgbtq, children, woman, feminism, hippie, commune, marital strife, lesbian relationship, beach ...
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Woman's Lake (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: What could be lovelier than Women's Lake - a magical summer setting near Berlin? Rosa, perhaps. She's the slightly melancholy guardian of the lake, spending her days in a boat, trapping fish and watching for poachers. Or her lover, the ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, lgbt, lesbianism, female nudity, flirting, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, lgbtq, love, gays and lesbians, lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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The Ring Thing (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Sarah accidentally proposes to her girlfriend in Provincetown, the mixup turns their loving relationship into a minefield of marital exploration.
Style: psychological, sentimental, sexy, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, marriage proposal, marriage, lesbian sex, love and romance, lgbtq, young lovers, youth, lesbian interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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An Unexpected Love (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Kate Mayer seems to have it all: a nice suburban house, two loving children and a devoted husband. But Kate is anything but happy. She is disappointed not only with her marriage, but with her entire life. In her pursuit of happiness, this frustrated ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, emotional
Plot: lesbian, sexual awakening, lesbian mother, lesbian love, divorce, female homosexuality, bigotry, self discovery, starting over, family problems, couples, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, life is a bitch, feminism, slavery, incest rape, abusive relationship, wife abuse, lgbtq ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
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64%
Margarita with a Straw (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this inspirational love story, a Delhi university student and aspiring writer afflicted with cerebral palsy leaves India for New York University, where she falls for a fiery young activist.
Style: serious, emotional, uplifting, realistic, touching ...
Plot: sexual relations, lesbian, lesbian love, disability, lesbian relationship, lgbt, cerebral palsy, first lesbian experience, self discovery, starting over, fall in love, lgbtq ...
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Two Mothers (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: The unexpected difficulty of becoming mothers through the means of artificial insemination slowly erodes the relationship between Katja and Isabella.
Style: captivating, independent film, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
Plot: lesbian couple, lesbian mother, pregnant woman, lesbian, lesbian romance, lesbian friend, lgbtq, lgbt, lesbian relationship, obstacle, problem solving, coping ...
Place: indiana, germany
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Sohee is a high school student training for a subcontracted position at a call center, when a mysterious incident occurs leading to Sohee's death. Detective Oh Yu-jin takes charge of her case and slowly uncovers the harsh realities surrounding ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, detective
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Replay (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise ...
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, obsessive love, lesbian, obsession, friendship, haunted by the past, love triangle, couples, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction, female nudity, lgbt ...
Place: paris france, europe, france
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The World Unseen (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, erotic, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian love, gender, forbidden love, lesbian teen, love and romance, injustice, life is a bitch, self discovery, society ...
Time: ancient times, 20th century, year 1952
Place: south africa, africa
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Breathe (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Style: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, south of france
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The Killing of Sister George (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
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Raven's Touch (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Blaming herself for a tragic accident, Raven Michaels secludes herself at a remote family cabin. She wanders the woods on the verge of a breakdown, seeking peace in isolation. In a last ditch attempt to save her family, Kate Royce takes her two ...
Style: psychological, captivating, deep, independent film, queer cinema
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship, love and romance, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, female nudity, jealousy, lgbt, forest, single mother ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing ...
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Time: year 2004
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I, You, He, She (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the weak of a devastating breakup.
Style: contemplative, art house, social, experimental, realistic ...
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Time: 70s
Place: europe, france
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East Palace West Palace (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In China, homosexuality isn't illegal, but homosexuals are routinely persecuted by police and arrested for "hooliganism". The film focuses on a young gay writer A-Lan who, being attracted to a young policeman, manages to have himself ...
Style: talky, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: gay, gay asian, police corruption, lgbtq, repression, homosexuality, cruise, male homosexuality, couples, gender, society, destructive relationship ...
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Schoolgirl Complex (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy
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