Movies like She Cried No

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She Cried No (1996)
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She Cried No (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman is date-raped and tries to press charges.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: college, rape, campus, love, sexual abuse, abused woman, teen social issues, school, womanizer, friendship, youth, parents and children, student life, sexual relations, couples, small town, college life, small town life, power relations, student, rapist, court, hospital, bullying, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1990s

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Most similar movies to She Cried No

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and psychological films with plots about youth, friendship, couples, family relations, parents and children, lifetime and college mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like She Cried No: A Reason to Believe (1995), Speak (2004), Precious (2009), Dying to Belong (1997), Her Desperate Choice (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
A Reason to Believe (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sorority gal Charlotte's innocence is lost after she is raped during a frat party. Confused, terrified and shunned by her peers, she finds solace and the courage to confront her attacker after she is befriended by the leader of a campus ...
Style: sexy, thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: fraternity, rape, college, friendship, wild party, couples, friends, animal life, injustice, strong sexual content, sexual abuse, sexual relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Speak (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style: touching, psychological, sentimental, sincere, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, school, rape, depression, teenage girl, teenage life, youth, innocence lost, family problems, bullying, unsupportive friend, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Precious (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style: bleak, emotional, depressing, rough, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, child abuse, teacher, poverty, illiteracy, social misfits, aids, african american, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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100%
Dying to Belong (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When a girls friend is killed by a college hazing, she is the only one who can find out the truth.
Style: sad, mind bending, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: college, sorority, troubled teen, love, campus, boyfriend, investigation, degradation, roommate, university, death, humiliation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Her Desperate Choice (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Despite allegations of sexual abuse against her ex-husband, Jody (Faith Ford) has lost a custody battle for Samantha (Hanna Hall) and faces a choice of turning her daughter over to him, or taking flight and risking kidnapping charges. Pursued by ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: on the run, private investigator, age difference, child abuse, youth, mother daughter relationship, small town, veterinarian, private detective, divorced parents, helplessness, fear ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: massachusetts
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47%
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Unwed Father (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: single father, babies and infants, adoption, teen social issues, family relations, environmentalism, family problems, couples, music band, love and romance, hopes, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: texas
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47%
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: sexual abuse, coming of age, rape, domestic violence, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, life is a bitch, pedophile, children, sexual assault, family in crisis ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa
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47%
She's Too Young (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) discovers that her "good girl" daughter (Alexis Dziena) is part of a group who are engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners. Such activity ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, sexually transmitted disease, high school life, teenage life, parents and children, lifestyle, society, kids in trouble, suburban life, teenage sexuality, troubled teen ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Jaded (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned than just a party-and she's central to the action.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Plot: lesbian seduction, female rapist, lesbian rape, rape, lesbian sex, investigation, sexual abuse, courtroom drama, lgbt, lgbtq, tattoo, female lawyer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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, 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 ⇓
46%
Desolation Angels (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Returning home from a trip to visit his mother, Nick discovers that a good friend of his, Sid, has apparently raped his girlfriend, Mary. More concerned with his own wounded pride than with Mary's lingering feelings of guilt, pain and betrayal, ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: betrayal, couples, sexual abuse, infidelity, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, couple relations, rape and revenge, nude, family relations, male female relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, boston, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Invisible Child (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A woman with two children believes she has three and her husband and oldest daughter play along with her to keep her balanced (or as close to balanced that a woman with an invisible child can be). However, when the family hires a new nanny, it is ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: imaginary friend, youth, family relations, nanny, dysfunctional family, mental illness, couples, estrangement, family problems, unfulfillment, single parent, society ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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46%
She Fought Alone (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: All, including school administration and a friend, turn their backs on a girl who accused a classmate of rape.
Style: touching, realistic, disturbing, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: rape, innocence lost, high school, sexual abuse, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, rebellion, youth, fighting the system, against the odds, american football, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
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46%
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Odd Girl Out (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage love, high school life, school, bullying, family relations, friendship, lifestyle, buddies, friends, teenage life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Between Something & Nothing (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING is based on filmmaker Todd Verow’s experiences at Rhode Island School of Design. After being accepted into a prestigious New England art school, sexy small-town JOE and townie mastermind JENNIFER quickly join ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: gay, art school, college, self discovery, dangerous attraction, lifestyle, youth, friendship, student life, social misfits, prostitute, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Back to School Mom (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, captivating ...
Plot: college, family relations, redemption, social relations, homecoming, college life, starting over, life is a bitch, bittersweet, small town, college friend, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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45%
To Be Fat Like Me (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Pretty, popular, and slim high-schooler Aly Schimdt had plans of earning a sports scholarship to college but a knee injury ruins her chances. She decides to enter a documentary contest in the hopes of winning money for college. She believes that ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, documentary filmmaking
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, female friendship, summer school, overweight, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, contests and competitions, youth, working undercover, doctors and patients, social experiment, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
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45%
The Pregnancy Project (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, thought provoking
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, teenage life, high school, youth, parents and children, dishonesty, family relations, teachers and students, teenage pregnancy, teenager, teenage girl, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Love Trap (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Drama - Richard, a law student, is hanging out with the guys at a sports bar. When Angel, a seductive vixen, appears from nowhere and smothers him with attention, he's embarrassed. Faced with temptation, Richard makes an innocent suggestion ...
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, spiritual, sexual ...
Plot: seductress, love, law student, couples, love and romance, love affair, friendship, fall in love, african american, student, black american, seduction ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Promised Land (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three recent high school grads - star athlete Hancock, his cheerleader girlfriend, Mary, and the awkward Senator - aim to leave their small town behind and realize big dreams, but their idealistic plans collide with life's harsh realities.
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, wedding, basketball, tattoo, alienation, small town, high school, friendship, destiny, dangerous attraction, small town life, college ...
Time: 80s
Place: utah, usa
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45%
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Rivals (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, dark, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: stalking, teenage life, friendship, couples, love and romance, youth, seduction, rape, revenge, mentally unstable, suspense, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
For the Love of Nancy (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
Style: thought provoking, serious, psychological, realistic, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, anorexia, depression, drugs, psychology, self harm, college, refusing to eat, weight loss, starvation, family relations, prom ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york
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45%
Home Before Dark (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: It's 1963 in rural Massachusetts, and Nora James has the usual worries of an eleven year-old girl:lipstick, first crushes, staying out of trouble at school...not easy when your teacher is the elderly Sister Concilia. And even harder when your ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic
Plot: youth, family relations, assassination, clergy, nanny, society, life is a bitch, hopes, contests and competitions, unfulfillment, single parent, love affair ...
Time: 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Jewel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, society, social relations, couples, couple relations, youth, babies and infants, small town, small town life ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Class of '96 (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Class of '96 is an American drama series that aired on Fox from January to May 1993. The series was created by John Romano and filmed mostly at the University of Toronto.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: college, college life, university, disorder, friends, power relations, social relations, follow your dream, buddies, lifestyle, youth, love and romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Moyher's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of gambling paradise Las Vegas. Benny aces his studies, being a mathematical genius, but the one ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, captivating
Plot: gambling, bookies, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, couples, fall in love, culture clash, college life, youth, follow your dream, buddies ...
Place: arizona, las vegas, nevada, new york, usa
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44%
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Poison Friends (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Style: talky, psychological, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: friendship, youth, friends, power relations, college life, betrayal, teachers and students, college, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, student, mishap ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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44%
The Face on the Milk Carton (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on the book by Caroline B. Cooney, a girl happens to look down at a milk carton one day and she sees herself on the back! Could her parents really have kidnapped her?
Style: realistic, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: abused child, drugs, love, kidnapping, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, life turned upside down, fall in love, siblings relations, adoption, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Stephanie Daley (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. ...
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, rough, clever ...
Plot: murder, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family problems, investigation, sex education, cheerleader, american football, babies and infants, teenage girl, teen social issues ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Sexual Dependency (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A poor girl, a rich stud, a university student and a model -- nothing in common, except the desire to experience true intimacy. Their stories unfold and overlap as each becomes victim to their own sexual dependencies, self-perceptions and illusions. ...
Style: erotic, psychological, sincere, serious, sexy ...
Plot: sexual abuse, sexual relations, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, teenage life, love and romance, life is a bitch, youth, human nature, male nudity, gay, self discovery ...
Place: bolivia, south america, latin america
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44%