Movies like The New World 1995

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The New World (1995)
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The New World (1995)
Original name: Le Nouveau Monde
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed.
Style: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot: age difference, world war two, jazz, older man young girl relationship, village, friendship, youth, rock, friends, soldier, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, best friend, couples, teenage life, sexual content, lifestyle, coming of age, musician's life, unfulfillment, teaching the ways of the world, experimenting, sex, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two
Place: france, europe
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and gloomy films with plots about love and romance, family relations, friendship, youth, friends, couples and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The New World: Whatever (1998), The Invisible Circus (2001), In Mom's Head (2007), Those Who Remain (2007), Restless (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 Invisible Circus (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After learning that her sister, Faith (Cameron Diaz), has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe (Jordana Brewster), an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the ...
Style: sexy, emotional, touching, romantic, sentimental ...
Plot: suicide, secrets, death, teenage life, fall in love, love and romance, family relations, couples, on the road, haunted by the past, human nature, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, paris france, france
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In Mom's Head (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, youth, life is a bitch, love and romance, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, secret, intergenerational friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Restless (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
Plot: love and romance, couples, teenage life, family relations, haunted by the past, youth, teenage love, estrangement, elderly, relationship vs career, aging, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Bulgarian Rhapsody (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Story: the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: friendship, wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, holocaust, youth, love and romance, society, teenage life, anti semitism, coming of age ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: bulgaria
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Sonja (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Sonja is struggling to deal with her parent separation, and find her feelings for her best friend might not just be a phase.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, sexy, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: coming of age, lesbian, friendship, love and romance, family relations, youth, friends, couples, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, best friend, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
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Being 14 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, friends, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Love, Math and Sex (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, sex with a minor, teenage sex, coming of age, high school student, age difference, older man younger woman sex, young love, loss of virginity, sexual awakening, nudity, sexual content ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, france
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Buddha Mountain (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, sexy ...
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Place: asia, china
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Cold Water (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, rebelliousness, parents and children, unfulfillment, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time: 70s, year 1994, year 1972
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Dear Prudence (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, europe
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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 ...
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Frailer (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: best friend, friends, friendship, strong female presence, terminal illness, siblings relations, unfulfillment, family relations, resistance
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All Good Children (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After experiencing a tragedy, Irish brothers Dara and Eoin move to rural France, where they become friends with young Bella, whose beauty and charm bewitches the emotionally unstable Dara.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, obsession, teenage love, family relations, youth, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, society, friendship, cat, childhood trauma ...
Time: 21st century
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Canone inverso - Making Love (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the ...
Style: emotional, touching, captivating, serious, period piece ...
Plot: fall in love, friendship, world war two, love affair, violinist, holocaust, musician's life, violin, family relations, destiny, love and romance, musician ...
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The Poet (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: forbidden love, sexual content, world war two, soldier, couples, war, family relations, against humanity, age difference, wartime, rabbi, german officer ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, year 1939, year 1940
Place: poland, europe, russia
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The Last Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four good friends, all seventeen-year old, lose their innocence during their last summer together. Flanders 1996. Rik, Tim, Roel and Bart aimlessly wile away the summer days in a small village where nothing exciting ever happens. When Rik becomes ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, emotional
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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Valley (2014)
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Country: Israel
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Style: touching, realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience ...
Style: realistic, talky, clever, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: writers, coming of age, friendship, world war two, dysfunctional family, family relations, culture clash, father daughter relationship, adopted son, half brother, orphan, couple relations ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, new england, europe
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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, sexual ...
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Place: france, europe, paris france
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The Outlander (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story: It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
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Speak Like a Child (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
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This Is My Body (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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50%
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Little Jerusalem (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, society, lifestyle, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, infidelity, social differences, youth, male female relationship ...
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Between Two Women (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother ...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, period piece ...
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