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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one of NYC's subway lines). She dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted as their lot. But personal and sexual challenges confront Chantel on her way to fulfilling these dreams.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, surprise ending
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, woman, blaxploitation, urbanization, women of color, hip hop, youth, family relations, life is a bitch, high school life, teenage life, deadend life, social differences, society, down on your luck, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, coming of age, medical school, human nature, against the odds, hopes, dedicated educator, urban ghetto life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about youth, society, teenage life, coming of age, family relations, life is a bitch and urban mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.: Our Song (2000), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), Precious (2009), Anne B. Real (2003), How She Move (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
asthma, friendship, high school, teenager, adolescence, musician's life, lifestyle, against the odds, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, africa, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Style:
social, sad, meditative, rough, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
abortion, pregnancy, female protagonist, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, teenager, abortion clinic, stealing money, 17 year old, feminist ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, new york
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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, ...
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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:
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Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, contemplative
Plot:
hip hop, lifestyle, introspection, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto, siblings relations, urban ghetto life, family life, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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29%
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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 ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, exciting
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
Place:
usa, canada
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27%
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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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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Diahann Carroll was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe award for her gripping portrayal as the indomitable Claudine in this heartwarming comedy. While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, sincere
Plot:
african american, single mother, black history, blaxploitation, love, teenage pregnancy, girl, gangsters, city, women, social worker, single parent ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
Style:
serious, emotional, rough, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
asthma, teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, kids in trouble, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, lifestyle, addiction, gang, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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23%
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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
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23%
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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23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Style:
serious, realistic, clever, sincere, offbeat
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teachers and students, high school, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, social differences, rivalry, society, dedicated educator, contests and competitions, youth, teacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Style:
uplifting, touching, realistic, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
chess, school, teacher, misfit, youth, ambition, elementary school, teachers and students, lifestyle, hardcase students, high school life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, bronx new york city
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22%
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
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mark Thackeray (Poitier) is a West Indian, who in the 1967 film had taken teaching in a London East End school. He spent twenty years teaching and ten in administrative roles. He has taught the children of his former pupils, but is now retiring.
Style:
political, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
teacher, education, juvenile delinquency, african american, high school, dedicated educator, youth, hopes, idealism, society, hardcase students, undisciplined ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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21%
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:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia
Style:
serious, uplifting, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, juvenile delinquency, dysfunctional family, social decay, drug dealing, human spirit, youth, lifestyle, society, hopes, teenage life, drug abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
philadelphia, usa
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21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, opposites attract, family relations, friends, immigrants, love and romance, introspection, youth, single parent, coming of age, friendship ...
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21%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, african american, gangsters, blaxploitation, downbeat ending, hip hop culture, villain, hip hop, african american gangster, racism, drug dealing, social decay ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Style:
rough, realistic, sincere, serious, bleak
Audience:
kids
Plot:
homeless, kids in trouble, teenage life, life is a bitch, love, dysfunctional family, family problems, youth, society, pregnancy, escape, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, portland oregon
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, talky ...
Plot:
family relations, fish out of water, religions or cults, clergy, youth, society, life is a bitch, family life, disorder, church, coming of age, blaxploitation ...
Time:
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Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, blaxploitation, high school, african american, teenager, black history, exploitation, black cast, college, black man, love, gangsters ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago illinois, africa, usa
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20%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
culture clash, interracial relations, friendship, tragic love, social differences, social decay, unlikely couple, opposites attract, musician's life, fall in love, racism, love affair ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Film following four teenage girls around Hong Kong. The story centers around a young girl who is dealing with a pregnancy.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, rough, sexy ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, lifestyle, society, sexual relations, sexual promiscuity, teenage pregnancy, friendship, drugs ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, asia
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20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, coming of age, pregnancy, small town, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, single parent, youth, teenage life, human nature, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
france
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, semi autobiographical
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, under the surface, parents and children, family problems, social differences, power relations, society, social relations, family life, unfulfillment, class differences, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young boy from a working-class family and a bored young girl from a rich family are falling in love. Soon, she's pregnant and the teenagers have to escape from their disapproving parents.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, teenage love, on the run, forbidden love, social differences, young lovers, lifestyle, youth, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, sentimental, talky, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, looking for love, teenage love, hopes, society, teenage life, love and romance, suburban life, lifestyle, summer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
detroit, usa
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Interracial love story set in Detroit.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, harsh, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
interracial relations, hip hop, interracial romance, high school, forbidden love, racism, teenager, prejudice, school, friendship, childhood, coming of age ...
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Place:
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19%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes deal with weapons cop to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, rough
Plot:
gang, gangsters, arms dealing, kids in trouble, african american, police, hip hop culture, rap, hip hop, blaxploitation, troubled youth, undercover ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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19%
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, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
high school, racism, racial tension, family relations, small town, rebellion, prom, teenage life, youth, society, lifestyle, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
new orleans
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19%
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