Movies like A Little Closer

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A Little Closer (2011)
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A Little Closer (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: In the forgotten corners of rural Virginia, Sheryl struggles to balance her work as a housekeeper and raising her two sons, fifteen year-old Marc and eleven year-old Stephen. Hoping to meet the love of her life and bring home a father for her boys, she frequents a depressing, weekly mixer for the towns aging singles set. Meanwhile, Marc is desperate to lose his virginity, and spends his days working at a used car lot. And his brother Stephen, in the throes of sexual discovery, becomes infatuated with his school teacher while hoping to win the approval of a group of peers who adamantly detest her.
Style: sincere, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, erotic, touching, serious, gloomy
Plot: underage sex, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, looking for love, single parent, boy, teenage boy, teacher, sexuality, brother brother relationship, incest, loss of virginity, first sex, single mother, masturbation, oral sex, youth, love and romance, siblings relations, bittersweet, sex, teenager, sex scene, graffiti ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, virginia

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Most similar movies to A Little Closer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about family relations, youth, coming of age, parents and children, teenager, teenage life and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like A Little Closer: Adoration (2008), Jackie & Ryan (2014), The Goob (2014), Puppylove (2013), Don't Let Me Drown (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Adoration (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Director Atom Egoyan explores the concept of cyberspace as a place for redemption in this drama about an adolescent boy named Simon who reinvents his life on the internet. Before long, Simon's deeply personal journey provokes strong reactions ...
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: orphan, self discovery, haunted by the past, uncover truth, redemption, introspection, youth, parents and children, cyberspace, secret, high school, controversy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, toronto ontario canada
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Jackie & Ryan (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A modern day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician and a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each others lives forever.
Style: romantic, atmospheric, sincere, touching
Plot: musician, divorce, daughter, family relations, friends, poverty, family problems, love and romance, love, travel, dancing, lonely ...
Place: utah
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100%
 5.7
 1K
The Goob (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: We’re in the middle of a heat-wave in Fenland England. Goob Taylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping Mum run the transport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When Mum shacks up with swarthy stock-car supremo and ladies’ ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, teenage love, youth, small town, parents and children, teenage boy, boy, friendship, summer, teenager, boyhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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58%
 5.6
 977
Puppylove (2013)
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: realistic, touching, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: coming of age, sex scene, teenage love, underage sex, threesome, seduction, youth, parents and children, teenage life, friendship, couples, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
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, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrants, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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54%
 5.0
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Beautiful Fall (2004)
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: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, teenage love, eccentric family, love and romance, fall in love, parents and children, countryside, teenage life, estate, bittersweet, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sweden
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48%
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Square Dance (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An awkward 13-year-old (Winona Ryder) leaves her cranky grandfather (Jason Robards) in rural Texas, to live with her mother (Jane Alexander) in Fort Worth.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, young love, estranged family member, women, countryside, disabled child, intellectual disability, youth, hopes, misfit, young lovers, starting over ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
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40%
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Summer Games (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms ...
Style: sentimental, serious, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, family problems, family relations, love and romance, dysfunctional family, resort, parents and children, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, first love, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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38%
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Drunkboat (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, sad
Plot: family relations, single parent, youth, parents and children, haunted by the past, social relations, self discovery, suburbs, coming of age, teenage life, teenager, boat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
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37%
Thrill of the Hills (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In order to to see his idol, Jimi Hendrix, a twelve year old boy attempts a journey from his Quebec village to Woodstock.
Style: psychological, realistic, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: death of father, family problems, family relations, youth, death in the family, best friends, coming of age, teenage boy, child protagonist, dream, boy, children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place: canada, woodstock, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Changing Hearts (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A modern Prodigal Son story starring Brian McNamara, Daphne Zuniga, and Brad Johnson. James Reed, quite content with his current life, reluctantly returns home to the family business, a sick father, and a brother with whom he's always at odds.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: family business, homecoming, parents and children, family problems, family relations, workplace, small town, marital argument, business, getting home, relationships, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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36%
A Time in Quchi (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot: friendship, coming of age, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, youth, elderly, village, countryside, school, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, taiwan
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35%
Normal Adolescent Behavior (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: High school student Wendy has an odd relationship with her five friends: They're openly sexual with each other, swapping partners every week. But this is all thrown into turmoil when she meets Sean, a new student in school who has a crush on ...
Style: sexy, serious, sincere, bleak, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: sex, teenager, high school, coming of age, teenage love, humiliation, high school life, friendship, love and romance, best friends, family relations, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
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35%
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 584
Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, society, youth, parents and children, small town, teenage life, sexual abuse, teenage girl, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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35%
Mother, I Love You (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, entertaining
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, kids in trouble, childhood, juvenile delinquency, family relations, youth, single parent, parents and children, bittersweet, mother and son, boy, financial problem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latvia
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34%
A Common Thread (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: teenage pregnancy, coming of age, pregnancy, small town, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, single parent, youth, teenage life, human nature, employer employee relationship ...
Place: france
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33%
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Jack (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Although he is only ten years old, Jack is responsible for himself and his little brother Manuel and this fills him with pride. Their single mother works during the day and often goes out at night. There’s no father in sight. One day, Manuel burns ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
Plot: boy, parents and children, young heroes, teenage life, self discovery, youth, child as adult, coming of age, family relations, life turned upside down, child care, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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31%
The Last Hammer Blow (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, parents and children, family relations, single parent, bittersweet, father son relationship, teenage boy, orchestra conductor, father son reunion, boy, father, boyhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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31%
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Cook County (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, drug abuse, parents and children, homecoming, small town, adolescence vs adulthood, released from prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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31%
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1st Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot: coming of age, youth, teenage life, teenage love, family relations, parents and children, bittersweet, island, teenage boy, teenage girl, sexual awakening, oral sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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30%
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See Girl Run (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: self discovery, small town, couples, unfulfillment, ex lover, love and romance, family relations, coming of age, small town life, dull life, thirtysomething life, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine, new england
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30%
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Summer Rain (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: love and romance, obsession, buddies, teenage love, teenage life, best friends, coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, fascism, friends, youth, society ...
Time: 70s
Place: spain, europe
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30%
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Liar's Moon (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, cult film
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, teenage love, teenager, coming of age, love, small town life, teenage life, small town, computers and web, infidelity, social differences, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: louisiana, texas, usa
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30%
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Harry + Max (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Two brothers, 23 and 16, who are both teen idols, come to terms with their dysfunctional family past and deep affection for each other.
Style: serious, captivating, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Plot: gay, dysfunctional family, incest, siblings relations, lgbt, gender, teenage life, sexual relations, gay relationship, family relations, lifestyle, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 650
Low Tide (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A 12 year old boy and his single mother live separate lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy’s solitude is both a source of freedom and a cause for grief. His explorations slowly bring to ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, small town, family problems, parents and children, mother son relationship, youth, single parent, society, dysfunctional family, realism, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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30%
Love is the Word (2013)
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, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, first love, love and romance, youth, family relations, first sexual experience, hopes, village, parents and children, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, age difference ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: holland
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29%
It Felt Like Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to ...
Style: sexy, emotional, realistic, touching, erotic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, obsession, self discovery, teenage girl, sexuality, best friends, friendship, wooing, teenager, loss of virginity, first sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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29%
All the Wilderness (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a charismatic new friend and a quirky young woman begin to draw him out of his shell.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, teenage life, teenage boy, family relations, coming of age, self discovery, single parent, youth, therapist, mother son relationship, boyhood, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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28%
The Elephant King (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this ...
Style: psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: introspection, fall in love, family relations, brother brother relationship, american abroad, nightclub, self discovery, depression, lgbt, interracial relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, usa, asia, manhattan new york city, new york
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27%
Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, youth, teenage life, social relations, drugs, police, harvest, boy, couples, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%