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David and Lisa (1998)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
It was adapted as a stage play in 1967, and was remade as a television movie in 1998 starring Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier and Brittany Murphy.
Style:
psychological, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
split personality, dissociative identity disorder, love hurts, teenage love, friendship, youth, misfit, mental institution, family relations, love and romance, mental illness, love affair, teenage life, young lovers, looking for love, doctors and patients, social relations, hopes, unfulfillment, unlikely couple, power relations, young love, mental health, romance
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, love, friendship, youth and love affair mostly in Drama, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like David and Lisa: Mr. Jones (1993), Sweet Hostage (1975), Don't Let Me Drown (2009), The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999), Falling Like This (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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496
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, year 1993
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, texas, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy, semi autobiographical
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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300
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy, disturbing
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
19%
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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172
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A-Cheng collects debts for a gangster and doesn't skimp on violence, but he can also be merciful to those who deserve it. He has a crush on Hao-ting, the daughter of one of the debtors, but he only knows the underworld and so embarks on a ...
Style:
emotional, romantic, touching, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Style:
psychological, touching, melancholic, sincere, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 215 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
medicine, wedding ring, power relations, couples, couple relations, love and romance, doctors and patients, unfulfillment, road not taken, terminal illness, civil war, blackmail ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, emotional, political ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
philadelphia, usa, africa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, bleak, emotional, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
mental illness, doctors and patients, rebelliousness, mentally unstable, mental institution, introspection, political unrest, human nature, hopes, state affairs, misfit, psychology ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style:
erotic, intense, sexual, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, young lovers, first love, mental institution, arson, obsession, sex scene, mental illness, love, love story, voyeur ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
17%
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