Movies like Sweet Hostage
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Sweet Hostage (1975)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An escaped mental patient kidnaps an illiterate teenage farm girl and takes her to his mountain hide-away, where they soon become friends and, eventually, lovers.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, offbeat
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, hostage, kidnapping, age difference, lovers on the run, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, forbidden love, mental institution, farm, teenager, mental patient, teenage girl, kidnapped girl, poem, escaped mental patient, mountain, captivity, missing person, love and romance, love affair, teenage life, confined, teaching the ways of the world, dancing, native american ...
Time:
70s
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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 love and romance, love affair, youth, couples, teenage life, fall in love and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Sweet Hostage: David and Lisa (1998), Wildflower (1991), The Notebook (2004), John and Mary (1969), Highway (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
It was adapted as a stage play in 1967, and was remade as a television movie in 1998 starring Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier and Brittany Murphy.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Style:
talky, serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, love, commitment, couple relations, love and romance, city life, sexual relations, singleness ...
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, emotional, sad ...
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, on the road, fall in love, self discovery, confined, unlikely couple, freedom, character change, on the run, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, travel ...
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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:
teens
Plot:
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:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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38%
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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
Plot:
forbidden love, rich and poor, fall in love, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, islam
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
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37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Story:
A musician and a fireman work against certain expectations in order to pursue their respective dreams.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.
Style:
romantic, sexy, serious, realistic, captivating
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.
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36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Melissa Gilbert stars in this film adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, in which a young girl named Pip and her mother meet an artist on the beach in Safe Harbour, where they have retreated in order to recover from the devastating ...
Style:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love and romance, student life, youth, professor, college, society, friendship, age difference, daughter, college life, love
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
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teens, date night, girls' night
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35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
For as long as she could remember, Dakota Skye has been cursed with a super power. She has the ability to see the truth in any lie she hears. From small, harmless white lies, to the more devious kind, they have come from the people that she should ...
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Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, friendship, music band, supernatural power, coming of age, lie, teen angst, self discovery, teenager, self acceptance, love ...
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Story:
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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, ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot:
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35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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