Movies like Susan Slade
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Susan Slade (1961)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.
Style:
cult film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, love, pregnant teenager, young adult, christmas, dancing, horse, airplane, mountaineer, pregnancy, writers, party, death, seduction, beach, swimming, doctor, miner, singer, fire, jealousy, suicide, teenage girl, deception, mine ...
Place:
san francisco, guatemala, chile, santiago chile
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, sincere, realistic and serious films with plots about mother daughter relationship, kiss, husband wife relationship, telephone call, cigarette smoking, father daughter relationship and dancing mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Susan Slade: Parrish (1961), Rome Adventure (1962), Only Once (1998), V.D. (1961), The Wife (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, emotional ...
Plot:
trippy, family relations, arson, love triangle, adultery, submarine, tobacco, plantation, family problems, couples, tough heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
60s
Place:
connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A beautiful American schoolteacher vacationing in Rome is courted by two men. Released in 1962, starring Suzanne Pleshette, Troy Donahue, Rossano Brazzi and Angie Dickinson.
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching
Plot:
love, vacation, fall in love, school teacher, couples, love and romance, starting over, love affair, true love, looking for love, teaching the ways of the world, on the road ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Greg and Kellie are two well adjusted and highly-motivated teenagers, from happy homes with loving parents. They find they have much in common, including their future college goals, their love of family and the Lord. They fall in love and into ...
Style:
christian film
Plot:
faith, pregnant teenager, love, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, doctor, ambulance, high school, pregnancy, premarital sex, unplanned pregnancy, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
192
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A high school track star's wedding plans are capsized by venereal disease and a bad, beautiful new girl in town. His coach and a physician steer him into the light again.
Plot:
syphilis, venereal disease, high school, youth, coach, teenager, casual sex, promiscuity, premarital sex, deception, female rivalry, sexual intercourse ...
Place:
california, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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41K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, lyrical, emotional, intellectual ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, sexism, father son relationship, family relations, novelist, professor, twists and turns, adulterous husband, award ...
Time:
year 1992, 60s, 90s, 50s, year 1960 ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Style:
thought provoking
Plot:
korean american, korean, airport, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, adoption, deportation, tattoo, east asian lead, man hits a man, tattoo on face, death ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1981, year 1945, year 2006, year 2009 ...
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
cheerleader, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, overprotective mother, daughter, freedom, beauty queen, breakup, money problems, american dream, single mother, talent show ...
Time:
year 1865, year 2004, year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Style:
sincere, stylized, serious, realistic, retro
Plot:
filmmaking, infidelity, alcohol abuse, sanitarium, drug addiction, isolation, ambition, missing person, airport, recording studio, heart attack, casino ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, usa, connecticut, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Plot:
aging, retirement home, picnic, husband wife relationship, death, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, dying, mother daughter relationship, doctor, grandmother grandson relationship, grandfather grandson relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, semi serious, talky, touching
Plot:
infidelity, working class, midlife crisis, friendship, erection, misfit, unfulfillment, buddies, hopes, society, battle of the sexes, couple relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
okinawa japan, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of Palm Springs harred, stressful police chief. Jim's bumbling ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
college, spring break, student athlete, beach party, college life, car chase, friendship, love triangle, resort, fall in love, opposites attract, chase ...
Time:
60s
Place:
california, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style:
sad, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, promise, friendship, terminal illness, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, new life, addiction, gay, cancer, self destructing ...
Time:
year 1983, year 2000, year 2013
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A newly married couple are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.
Style:
tricky, psychological, melancholic, contemplative
Plot:
philanthropist, older man younger woman relationship, guilty conscience, death of friend, obsession, friends, young woman, loneliness, love and romance, old friend, mysterious character, unfulfillment ...
Place:
philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, ...
Style:
touching, captivating, disturbing, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hospital, doctor, illness, cancer, friendship, surgery, friend, death, student, life is a bitch, adaptation, life philosophy ...
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
Plot:
virgin, love, art student, college campus, unplanned pregnancy, premarital sex, motorcycle, pregnancy, young love, college student, college professor, ocean ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, coming out, lgbtq, gay interest, bondage, family relations, gay relationship, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
Style:
sentimental, captivating, melancholic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, memory loss, mother daughter relationship, lie, blizzard, self discovery, introspection, woman, marriage, illness, dementia, snow ...
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, california, sacramento california, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Style:
lyrical, sad, road movie, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
death of son, depression, investigation, death of child, grieving mother, death, justice, murder mystery, life & death, violent death, murder investigation, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, mississippi, new orleans, alabama, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
Style:
anamorphic
Plot:
racism, childhood, friend, african american, lesbian, women, black history, isolation, lgbtq, woman, interwar period, demonic possession ...
Time:
1920s, year 1929
Place:
harlem, new york, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
euthanasia, dying man, family relations, meaning of life, life & death, family problems, death of mother, dark secret, doubts and hesitations, problem solving, health situation, life philosophy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
J.R. is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, feel good ...
Plot:
uncle nephew relationship, writers, bartender, drunken man, family relations, boy, adult child friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, bar owner, family life, social issues, social problems ...
Time:
year 1973, year 1986
Place:
long island, manhattan new york city, connecticut, north carolina, yale university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Style:
tense, serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
farm, betrayal, retirement home, parents and children, homecoming, family problems, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, country, grudge, father son relationship, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, sincere, realistic
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, estrangement, love and romance, siblings relations, family life, terminal illness, haunted by the past, parents and children, homosexual, secret, photographer ...
Place:
new york, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.
Style:
uplifting, thought provoking, buddy movie, political, sad
Plot:
racism, african american, fight for justice, inequality, racial injustice, injustice, friendship between men, black history, women, suspense, social injustice, victory ...
Time:
60s, year 1965, year 1964, year 1963
Place:
miami, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, emotional, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship, teenage pregnancy ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
native american, teenager, society, youth, indian reservation, american indian, american football, social relations, family problems, death in the family, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south dakota, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
572
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
Style:
sad
Plot:
forest, female friendship, police officer, cemetery, casino, memory, swing, police station, secret, cat, father son relationship, panic attack ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sincere, serious, cerebral ...
Plot:
father son relationship, architecture, mother daughter relationship, coma, korean american, relationships, small town, friendship, family relations, male female relationship, family problems, social problems ...
Time:
year 1950, year 1954, 2010s, year 2008
Place:
indiana, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to 'The Crucible'.
Style:
realistic, talky, emotional, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teacher student relationship, peer pressure, sex scene, high school, male teacher female student affair, bullying, teenage girl, older man younger woman relationship, teenage life, life is a bitch, loneliness, protection ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, realistic, depressing, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, depression, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, suicide, father son relationship, grief, therapy, coming of age, loss of son, alienation, mental illness ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, houston texas, texas, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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