Movies like Old Enough

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Old Enough (1984)
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Old Enough (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but confessing to the priest later. But Karen also learns some honesty from Lonnie. A film about social differences and growing up.
Style: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, slasher
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, youth, coming of age, female friendship, strong female lead, woman, middle school, age-gap relationship, family relations, friendship between girls, female bonding, religion, summer vacation, religious differences, friends, rich and poor, teenage life, social differences, society, urban, hopes, power relations, church, teenage girl ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and serious films with plots about youth, coming of age, friendship, family relations, friends, teenage life and society mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Old Enough: Brooklyn Bridge (1991), Toe to Toe (2009), Face (2002), Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), Moving Out (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brooklyn Bridge (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s. The premise was partially based on the childhood of executive producer and ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: skirt, family relations, coming of age, jewish family, social relations, social differences, friends, family life, misfit, social misfits, society, youth ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1956
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Toe to Toe (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lacrosse, friendship, teenage life, self discovery, coming of age, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, female bonding, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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77%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, fall in love, human nature, society, youth, family relations, working class, teenager, betrayal ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Moving Out (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, independent film
Plot: immigrant, family relations, coming of age, suburbs, misfit, society, youth, life turned upside down, teenage life, culture clash, moving, trespassing ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, melbourne
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Sex and the USA (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, mockumentary
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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50%
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Whatever (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style: realistic, independent film, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, age difference, art teacher, bittersweet, performer's life, youth, society, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1998, future, 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
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The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, self discovery, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, misfit, life is a bitch, society, coming of age ...
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44%
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Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Chosen (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film follows the son of an orthodox rabbi and the son of a ...
Style: realistic, touching, thinking, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, orthodox jew, religion, jewish culture, judaism, friendship, father son relationship, culture clash, chosen one, holocaust, family drama, traumatic childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1944
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Run Sister Run! (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her ...
Style: realistic, emotional, semi serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, rebelliousness, self discovery, life turned upside down, juvenile delinquency, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, family problems, social relations, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Just a Dream (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friendship, friends, obsession, interracial relations, family life, family relations, social relations, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: nevada, usa
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Me Without You (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, teen ...
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Time: 70s, 80s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Beautiful Secret (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, ...
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Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Stella (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1977. Stella entre en sixième, dans un grand lycée parisien. Stella entre dans le monde... Un nouveau monde, à l'opposé de celui qu'elle connaît. Presque un miracle. Elle, elle vit dans un café, un café d'ouvrier, à la ...
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Plot: coming of age, friendship, working class, mischievous children, misfit, disorder, power relations, elementary school, teachers and students, school, parents and children, streetwise ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: france, paris france, europe
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36%
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Time: 90s
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34%
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
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Time: year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: south carolina, indiana, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
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34%
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Zelly and Me (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor to take her and the orphan away when she realizes that the ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, sentimental ...
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Time: 80s, 1950s
Place: virginia, southern usa
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32%
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How She Move (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
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Audience: teens
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32%
This Is My Life (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance and moves with her two children Erica and Opel to New York to perform in small bars. Soon her ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, feminist, slice of life, sister sister relationship, comedian, female protagonist, stand up comedian, family relations, siblings relations, teenage life, relationship vs career, showbiz ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: usa, new york, las vegas
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32%
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In Bloom (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
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31%
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A Fine Step (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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30%
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29%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends her off to the country to live with her father, Ben, and his new pregnant wife, Emma. Sydney ...
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28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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28%
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Country: USA
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Style: serious, touching, realistic, contemplative, sexual ...
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28%
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28%
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