Movies like Safe Harbor
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Safe Harbor (2009)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
troubled teen, teenager, juvenile delinquent, social worker, changing lives, re-education, relationships, male female relationship, assistant, lifestyle change, troubled youth, adoption, yacht, judge, sailboat, happy ending, storm at sea, coast guard, alcoholic mother, arsonist, childless couple, corrupt official, sailing
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Most similar movies to Safe Harbor
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, psychological and sincere films with plots about relationships, changing lives, lifestyle change, male female relationship, lifestyle, family relations and female protagonist mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Safe Harbor: Fatal Beauty (2019), The Desert Bride (2017), Life Inside Out (2013), The Mystery of Her (2022), Feather (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Trevor and Michelle live an average life in the suburbs. When new neighbors move in, however, they find their world turned upside down, and their neighborhood into a place of chaos and shame.
Style:
captivating, disturbing
Plot:
lifestyle change, new neighbor, changing lives, attempted seduction, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, husband wife relationship, nosy neighbor, relationship problems, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Teresa’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she loses her bag, causing her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, road movie
Plot:
traveling salesman, journey, family relations, relationships, female protagonist, changing lives, suspense, male female relationship, road trip, lifestyle change, lifestyle, travel ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.
Style:
sincere, captivating
Plot:
female protagonist, teenage son, family relations, teenager, relationships, musician, lifestyle change, mother son relationship, songwriter, changing lives, parents and children, lifestyle ...
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85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After a near fatal car accident, a popular high school student loses her memory and gets a second chance at a more meaningful life.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
memory loss, car accident, changing lives, lifestyle change, teenager, female protagonist, second chance, memory lapse, jewel theft, teenage girl, teenage life, amnesia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ferro and Cate, two kids trying to get to grips with an unplanned pregnancy, their families (rebellious Ferro’s hospitable, ‘normal’ family, and level-headed Cate’s unhinged, atypical one), exams at school, friends and a general lack of jobs.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
male female relationship, pregnant wife, couple relations, couples, changing lives, lifestyle, slice of life, unplanned pregnancy, lifestyle change, pregnant woman, relationships, pregnancy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Movies like Young Adult Matters
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
While writing an article about an abused boy, a woman fights for protect him after she uncovers shocking details.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
child abuse, domestic violence, child in peril, family problems, lifestyle change, violence, beaten up, changing lives, mentally unstable woman, parents and children, female protagonist
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81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, sad
Audience:
kids
Plot:
adoptive mother, foster home, female artist, painter, painting, drawing, sculptor, family problems, adoption, adoptive mother adopted son relationship, lifestyle change, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
643
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
nature, lifestyle change, changing lives, female protagonist, introspection, self discovery, new life, relationships, buddhist monk, thai, tank top
Place:
thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When her grandmother becomes seriously ill, Camila is forced to move to Buenos Aires, leaving behind a liberal public high school for a scholastic, traditional private institution. Suddenly a senior without any friends, and with her single mother ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, relationships, changing lives, grownups, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, suspense, lifestyle change, latinx lgbt
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A librarian facing a mid-life crisis travels to Costa Rica.
Style:
sincere, romantic, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
changing lives, meaning of life, midlife crisis, male female relationship, love affair, librarian, travel, identity crisis, love and romance, couple relations, life, fall in love ...
Place:
costa rica
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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The Last 10 Years similar movies
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
homeless teenager, pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenager, life is a bitch, social problems, society, suspense, relationship problems, social misfits, teenage life, female homosexuality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot:
friendship, roommate, neighbor, lifestyle change, changing lives, college roommate, relationship problems, relationships, male female relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, illiteracy, animal cruelty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's about a man that gets tired of his meaningless life and finds a way to escape from it pretending to be dead.
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot:
faked death, father daughter reunion, presumed dead, kids and family, parents and children, relationships, lifestyle change, lifestyle, father daughter relationship, family life, changing lives, family reunited ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
Style:
christian film, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot:
near death experience, hospital, church, heaven, christian, car accident, husband wife relationship, recovery, faith, dealing with death, physical disability, disability ...
Time:
year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
teenager, supernatural ability, love story, couple relations, marine life, teenage girl, sea voyage, relationships, supernatural power, teenage life, teenage protagonist, sea creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of John Buultjens, who has dedicated his life to the sport of BMX.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
interracial adoption, interracial family, interracial relations, athlete's life, racial issues, racial relations, sport, lifestyle, interracial friendship, ambition, coping, skinhead ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's young gardener, himself an illegal from Mexico. Their friendship carries both of them through their hopeless, sequestered lives and ultimately ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, sincere, disturbing
Plot:
teenage girl, held captive, wealthy family, illegal alien, domestic violence, teen romance, escape plan, couple relations, slave, teenage love, love story, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Ximena is illiterate; Jacqueline reads to her. Everything except a letter hidden under a wooden Buddha that Ximena won’t let her read. To know what it says, Ximena must learn to read. As Ximena learns, their relationship, thorny at first, becomes ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, sincere, disturbing
Plot:
illiteracy, illiterate, middle aged woman, training, changing lives, lifestyle change, education, character change, home schooling, lifestyle, uneducated, female protagonist ...
Place:
chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Pavel Zuev has to start his life over from darkness after he looses his sight. The young man has to learn again how to eat, walk, wash himself, do simple housework, and even how to look out of the window without seeing anything. All connections to ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating
Plot:
loss of eyesight, blindness, blind man, starting over, life is a bitch, social problems, blindness and impaired vision, male female relationship, relationships, hopes, visual impairment, blind character ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A woman with a seemingly ideal life, Siu Man is abandoned by her husband partly due to her fear of intimacy. After several life crises, she decides to reboot her life by taking over her father’s restaurant. Siu Man eventually finds herself ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, sincere
Plot:
love and romance, life, chef, family problems, love story, male female relationship, romantic relationship, female protagonist, couple relations, restaurant owner, cooking and food, restaurant ...
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
psychological, multicultural, disturbing, captivating, road movie
Plot:
changing lives, cross cultural relations, japanese culture, self discovery, engineer, relationships, introspection, culture, cultural difference, male female relationship, journey, bus ...
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Tao Lin’s beloved cult novel "Taipei". As one relationship collapses, another blooms for Erin, swept into the world of Paul Chen, a mysterious, charismatic author. When he proposes documenting every aspect of their ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
couples, life is a bitch, relationship problems, love affair, male female relationship, in love, couple relations, seduction, drugs, love interest, love and romance, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.
Style:
sincere, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
child, foster child, deafness, loner, blindness, lifestyle change, changing lives, child custody, custody, lifestyle, parents and children, care ...
Place:
korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
On-yoo is an adult childhood cancer survivor. When he's not practicing with his boy band, Oh-yoo often volunteers at the hospital's pediatric cancer ward. One day, he recognizes the familiar face of an overdose patient.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
overdose, patient, hospital, cancer, volunteer, love and romance, assistant, relationships, fighting illness, love story, couple relations, love interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
suspense, tragic event, relationships, changing lives, family relations, loss of brother, life is a bitch, friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The ugly duckling of a fraught middle-class household has her life turned upside-down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student, in this caustic, absurdist satire of petit-bourgeois family life from Dutch director Michiel ten Horn. (TIFF)
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, loss of virginity, family problems, dysfunctional family, introspection, lifestyle change, life philosophy, changing lives, family life, relationship problems, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
longing, couple relations, love interest, male female relationship, relationships, actress, love story, sexual attraction, love and romance, movie actress, couples, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After taking a break for the summer before their senior year, Ryan and Jess rekindle their relationship, and find out that Jess is pregnant with twins. When Ryan's mother demands a paternity test, they find out that Ryan is only the father of ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, touching, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
pregnant teenager, love, teenage pregnancy, relationships, youth, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, twists and turns, pregnancy, parents and children, teenage love, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8 years old Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
daughter, father daughter relationship, children, family problems, teenager, life is a bitch, changing lives, kids and family, dysfunctional family, social problems, family relations, teenage life ...
Place:
estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The story Follows Reid Morrison, a down and out musician who tries to escape his hometown mistakes and start over in New Orleans. Thinking the mistakes he has made will never be forgiven, he attempts to seclude himself from anything worth while. ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining
Plot:
confronting the past, blues, musician, musician's life, male female relationship, lifestyle, life, dealing with the past, troubled past, changing lives, new life, secret past ...
Place:
new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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