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The Empty Hours (2013)
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Original name: Las horas muertas
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The second film from Aarón Fernández is a Spain-Mexico-France co-production already screened as part of Films in Progress at the 60th edition of the Festival. On the desolate coast of Veracruz, young Sebastián, 17, has to run his uncle's motel single-handed, renting rooms by the hour. That's how he meets Miranda, a regular customer who goes there to wait for a lover who often arrives late, sparking a fleeting game of seduction between the two.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, female nudity, older woman younger man, teenage love, love and romance, youth, teenage life, seduction, motel, seaside, couples, sex, male female relationship, innocence lost, bittersweet, older woman younger man relationship, mistress, bare breasts, male full rear nudity, sex in a hotel, older woman teenage boy sex, hot and sexy, male nudity, male pubic hair, deep cleavage ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
mexico
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about youth, love and romance, coming of age, teenage life, female nudity, couples and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Empty Hours: Puppylove (2013), Casa Grande (2014), Year of the Nail (2007), The Maid (2014), Love Hurts (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Diane is a mysterious and lonely teenager. Sharing special bonds with her father Christian, she takes care of the education of her brother Marc. The arrival of Julia in the neighborhood, a charismatic and liberated young British woman, is going to ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, sincere, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, female pubic hair, female nudity, teenage love, teenage sex, underage sex, seduction, sex scene, porn, watching sex, party, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, belgium
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
class differences, teenage life, under the surface, parents and children, family problems, social differences, power relations, social relations, society, unfulfillment, family life, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, couples, unfulfilled love, teenage life, hopes, society, friendship, male female relationship, looking for sex, youth, loss of virginity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
female nudity, coming of age, love, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, family relations, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, parent child relationship, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by sending her to Canada. The story remarks the difference ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, poverty, wealth, social differences, forbidden love, against the odds, young lovers, youth, society, fall in love, parents and children, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico city, mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, couples, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, on the run, youth, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
687
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sentimental, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, sex with teenager, sex with a minor, older woman teenage boy relationship, forbidden love, seductress, older woman teenage boy sex, female pedophile, older woman younger man, first sexual experience, older woman younger man sex, sexually liberated ...
Time:
year 2001
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, teenage love, rebelliousness, best friend, love and romance, youth, rebellion, boarding house, opera singer, friendship, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
beijing china, china, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Alex glides his mouse tenderly over online images of Vika. He has been smitten ever since he saw her with her friends and cannot get her out of his head. Now he has found Vika’s profile online and has learned a lot about her. Vika has no idea ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, first love, youth, love and romance, fall in love, young love, fire, shyness, friendship, teenage sexuality, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
15-year-old Solange lives in a little town in the French Alps. When her parents get divorced, she discovers her femininity and has her first sexual experiences.
Plot:
coming of age, loss of virginity, menstruation, female pubic hair, teenage girl, female masturbation, separated parents, menarche, teenage sexuality, older man younger woman sex, sex with a minor, suicide attempt ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
france
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Natalia and Carlos, both aged 20, are in love and struggling to survive in today’s Spain. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they’d like to. They have no great ambitions because they have no great hopes. To earn some ...
Style:
sexy, serious, touching, realistic, surprise ending ...
Plot:
unemployment, couple relations, filmmaking, unfulfillment, couples, working class, down on your luck, young lovers, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, nudity, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, madrid
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
love and romance, youth, student life, forbidden love, professor, college, society, friendship, age difference, daughter, college life, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her ...
Style:
contemplative, tense, serious, erotic, realistic ...
Plot:
magic realism, surrealism, killing an animal, granddaughter, girl, prostitute, violent content, nudity, family problems, estrangement, family relations, injustice ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, freeze frame
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, teenage love, eccentric family, love and romance, countryside, teenage life, fall in love, parents and children, estate, bittersweet, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
21st century
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27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, first love, first sexual experience, love and romance, youth, family relations, hopes, village, parents and children, teenager, age difference, teenage sex ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
holland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. ...
Style:
period piece, contemplative, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
young lovers, pregnancy, boat, female nudity, yacht, funeral, teenage crush, bittersweet, friendship, politics, society, teenage life ...
Time:
year 1985, 50s
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
25%
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:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, love, deaf, starting over, boarding school, dealing with death, youth, single parent, hopes, love and romance, couples, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
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:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory, twins, patient, terminal illness, hospital, couples, family problems, family relations, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
lovers reunited, love affair, teenage life, couples, couple relations, fall in love, infidelity, bittersweet, male female relationship, age difference, young love, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, love and romance, couples, family problems, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
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, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, opposites attract, fall in love, couples, high school hunk, virgin, first love, character change, high school, lifestyle change, loss of virginity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the loss of his mother has sucked the joie de vivre out of him; his best friend Alice knows it ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, starting over, love and romance, hopes, teenage life, couples, human nature, family problems, gays and lesbians, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young girl named Ann moves with her mother to her mother's hometown after her parents go through a divorce. There, Ann meets her first love Daigo Kitamura. Daigo helps her get used to life in the country. Ann even gets through her ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, family problems, death in the family, small town, youth, couples, family relations, classmate, friendship, school, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The plot centres around moody 17 year old Mathilde (Paradis) who has no parents. Her philosophy teacher François (Cremer), happens to stumble across her path and is eager to help her learn more. He starts to come over to her house everyday going ...
Style:
serious, sexual, romantic drama, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, girl man relationship, obsession, teacher student relationship, sex, youth, older man younger woman romance, coming of age, nudity, age difference, male teacher female student affair ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, dunkirk, flanders
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, sincere, talky ...
Plot:
love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, destiny, political unrest, state affairs, love and romance, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A man recounts his life in Beijing during the 1980s and reminisces about the one truth that allowed him to endure.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, first love, fall in love, love and romance, aging, teenage life, destiny, couples, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Style:
art house, contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, love and romance, unfulfillment, assassination, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's". The movie covers, teenage angst, ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, family life, hopes, youth, human spirit, love and romance, rebelliousness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, male nudity, death, teenager, skinny dipping, strained relationship, police officer, father son relationship, family relations, ira, politics, rural area ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, europe, tokyo, japan
Similarity:
23%
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