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Sex & the Single Mom (2003)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jess Gradwell and her teenage daughter boast a superclose relationship. When it comes to sex, however, Mom won't stand for anything less than premarital celibacy. So she gets a pretty healthy dose of her own medicine when she winds up getting pregnant from a brief encounter with a newly single doctor! This new situation poses a major challenge to the mother-daughter dynamic. Tune in to see if Jess and her daughter can rise to the occasion.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexy, sexual
Plot:
pregnancy, single parent, love, teenage life, moral dilemma, youth, parents and children, family life, love and romance, society, family problems, lifestyle, adolescence vs adulthood, mother daughter relationship, milf, older woman younger man, divorce, lust, affair, promiscuity, family relations, singleness, sexual relations, couples, gender ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, couples and love and romance mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Sex & the Single Mom: The Best Day of My Life (2002), Stay (2013), Expecting Amish (2014), Amy & Isabelle (2001), Fifteen and Pregnant (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, family life, parents and children, homecoming, single parent, unsupportive spouse, family relations, older man younger woman relationship, love, women, family problems, troubled relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
18-year-old Hannah Yoder is ready to become an Amish adult - which means baptism into the Church and marriage to her boyfriend, Samuel. However, her friends convince her to visit Hollywood for Rumspringa where she meets Josh and the two hit it off ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, religions or cults, forbidden love, couples, youth, society, love and romance, culture clash, adolescence vs adulthood, love affair, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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 ...
Style:
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 ...
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Place:
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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:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Plot:
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29%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
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Story:
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24%
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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