Movies like For One Night
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For One Night (2006)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combining the proms, which would also mean more money for decorations. However, her idea shook the town up, especially after a white student was let off for the same offense that a black student was suspended for. Can the town overcome racial tensions and finally combine the two proms?
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
Plot:
high school, racism, racial tension, family relations, small town, rebellion, youth, teenage life, society, lifestyle, prom, friendship, african american, journalism, love and romance, small town life, hopes, teenager, dancing, school, party, journalist, dating, corruption, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new orleans
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, society, family relations, love and romance, coming of age, teenage life and high school mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like For One Night: Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), Bad Company (1999), Unanswered Prayers (2010), Vicious Circle (2009), Ricochet River (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent ...
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sentimental, uplifting, realistic, road movie, compassionate ...
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racism, civil rights, discrimination, interracial relations, racial segregation, social differences, injustice, life is a bitch, society, youth, teaching the ways of the world, family life ...
Time:
1940s, 70s, 50s
Place:
mississippi, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
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touching, uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic ...
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girls' night
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racism, gambling, marriage, love, jealousy, small town, interracial relations, human spirit, family problems, injustice, dysfunctional family, love affair ...
Time:
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Place:
florida
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
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sexy, realistic, serious, psychological, emotional ...
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friendship, young love, reggae, family relations, prostitute, prostitution, adolescence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, small town, celebrity culture, looking for love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, france, jamaica
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39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, homecoming, love and romance, society, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, seduction, infidelity, lovers reunited, family business, nude bathing ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Shot on digital , HD and 8 mm. Filmed through both sides of North America. 'Vicious Circle' pushes the limits of what can be accomplished on a bike. Featuring the first ever 65 foot 'Double Road Gap' , some of the gnarliest ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
lifestyle, teenage life, fall in love, false accusation, family relations, love and romance, society, youth, destructive relationship, half brother, chess, high school ...
Time:
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Place:
california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, talky
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, interracial relations, culture clash, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, on the road, small town, social misfits, youth, best friends, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black man in a racist, rural Georgia town during the 1940s.
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serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, racism, interracial relations, small town, false accusation, hopes, opposites attract, life is a bitch, society, human nature, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa
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38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, touching ...
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Plot:
single parent, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, society ...
Time:
21st century
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38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three teen-aged girlfriends navigate multiple love triangles.
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, high school life, school, young love, youth, friends, high school, teenage life, teenage crush, teachers and students, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
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38%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Friends Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and Dumby Red (Luke Carroll) are on the same soccer team in their coastal Australian town. But to local racists, they're a world apart: Gary is white and Dumby is an Aborigine. This becomes an issue when one ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, family relations, interracial relations, small town, teenage life, society, lifestyle, ambition, athlete's life, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
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realistic, touching, sexy, poignant, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, waitress, small town, truancy, love, women, mother daughter relationship, friendship, desert, bittersweet, single mother, sexualized violence ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new mexico, argentina, usa, mexico
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
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teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, couples, youth, on the run, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, young lovers, love affair, fall in love ...
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Place:
california
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37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sexy ...
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36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, rough, controversial ...
Plot:
journalism, murder, uncover truth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, human spirit, life is a bitch, lifestyle, youth, idealism, society ...
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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36%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After Billy's parents are killed he moves home to care for his little brother Johnny, who is mentally challenged. Together the two struggle through the loss of their parents. Meanwhile, Billy's best friend from childhood, Dean, has moved ...
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touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sexy ...
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Place:
england, iraq, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, coming of age, youth, follow your dream, contests and competitions, teenage life, friendship, black people, lifestyle, hopes, dancer's life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
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usa, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
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realistic, serious, touching, sexy, sexual
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, friendship, human nature, single parent, disgraced, youth, love and romance, family problems, family life, dysfunctional family, isolation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new england, maine
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
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uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, prodigy, starting over, haunted by the past, lifestyle, rivalry, sport, hopes, on the run, redemption, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new york, usa
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36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Interracial love story set in Detroit.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, harsh, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
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interracial relations, hip hop, interracial romance, high school, forbidden love, racism, teenager, prejudice, school, friendship, childhood, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, emotional, touching, psychological ...
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teens
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Place:
usa
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36%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.
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teens
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's ...
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sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
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lesbian, coming out, school, lesbian sex, fall in love, high school life, youth, lesbian relationship, gay teacher, friendship, high school, lesbian couple ...
Time:
90s, year 1989, year 1993
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. ...
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
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pregnancy, boat, female nudity, funeral, loss of virginity, teenage crush, friendship, politics, bittersweet, young lovers, friends, coming of age ...
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Place:
former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The Fat Boy Chronicles is a motion picture about Jimmy Winterpock, an obese high-school student who deals with bullying and trying to lose weight. The film is inspired by a true story and was released in 2010 as a major motion picture.
Style:
uplifting, sincere, touching, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fat boy, teenage love, human spirit, youth, love and romance, win over, follow your dream, misfit, hopes, social misfits, teenage life, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous
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date night
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A multi-cultural celebration of young people triumphing in the face of adversity, societal pressures and difficult familial situations.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot:
gang, friendship, lifestyle, teenage life, family relations, life is a bitch, hopes, society, youth, rich and poor, drug abuse, against the odds ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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