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The Princess & the Marine (2001)
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The Princess & the Marine (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Based on a true story, American Marine Jason Johnson (Goselaar) is sent on assignment to the Emirate of Bahrain. While there, he meets and falls in love with a spirited, lovely young woman, Meriam (Nichols), without realizing she is really a member of the Bahraini Royal Family. Meriam, who does not wish to consent to an arranged marriage, knows her love affair with Jason is dangerous, as he is a Mormon Christian and she a Muslim. Her parents would never consent to their match, and so Meriam and Jason race against time to escape Bahrain and make it to the United States, where they can marry. If Meriam is sent back, however, her life may be in jeopardy.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, emotional
Plot: military, marine, princess, friendship, family relations, parents and children, social differences, sailor, rich and poor, love and romance, injustice, couples, impossible love, society, class differences, hopes, couple relations, teenager, interracial, wedding, muslim, mormon
Place: middle east
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, society, love, parents and children and couple relations mostly in Romance, Drama and War genres. Some movies like The Princess & the Marine: Ali and Nino (2016), Class (2010), The Waiting City (2009), Listen to Me (1989), Fitoor (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Secret Love: The Schoolboy and the Mailwoman (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A 17 year old boy falls in love with a 37 year old woman. As if this wouldn't be enough they are of different social classes and she is married.
Style: captivating, romantic, erotic
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Ali and Nino (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Azerbaijan
Duration: 100 min.
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The Princess & the Barrio Boy (2000)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong side of town.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, romantic, realistic
Plot: swimming, social differences, teenage life, fall in love, family relations, couples, working class, parents and children, family life, youth, hopes, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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Class (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Preppy and wealthy Whitt Sheffield is in his last semester of law school when a professor assigns him to act as an advocate for a young, single mother who needs help finding - and keeping - a job. Whitt, whose snooty father wants Whitt to follow him ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, law student, fall in love, couples, rich and poor, society, parents and children, law school, lawyers and clients, lawyer, social differences, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
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Listen to Me (1989)
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn ...
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Plot: college, friendship, disability, teenager, love, politics, opposites attract, college life, couples, power relations, social relations, fall in love ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A young artist tries to win the heart of his muse, while her mother hatches a scheme to end his quest for true love.
Style: sincere, exciting, captivating, light, sexy ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: touching, serious, psychological, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Cafe Setareh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, light
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Genre: Romance
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, tense ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, captivating, sincere, emotional ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, indonesian
Plot: forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, rich and poor, love and romance, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, love ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating, psychological
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
Plot: fall in love, moral dilemma, love and romance, society, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, immigrant, misfit, emigration, engagement, identity ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 84 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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The Waterdance (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, talky, psychological ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
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Style: entertaining, touching, sentimental, emotional, romantic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sabah: A Love Story (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, realistic, islamic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Civil Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rachel is a widow during the Civil War who holds the South responsible for her husband's death. When a wounded enemy soldier takes refuge in her barn, Rachel reluctantly helps him. As she gets to know him more, she realizes she must protect him ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, independent film
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Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: usa
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