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The Delinquents (1989)
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The Delinquents (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
Style: independent film, touching, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
Audience: teens
Plot: abortion, forbidden love, teenage love, sailor, baby, runaway, welfare, youth, rock, family relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, tragic love, teenage life, small town, unfulfilled love, small town life, unfulfillment, female nudity, male nudity, teenage girl, rock and roll, mother daughter relationship, juvenile delinquent ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: australia

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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 love and romance, couples, youth, family relations, unfulfillment, fall in love and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Delinquents: Endless Love (1981), Falling Like This (2001), Some Things That Stay (2004), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Parsley Days (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Endless Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style: erotic, intense, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, mental illness, obsession, forbidden love, young lovers, arson, teen angst, mental institution, first love, teenage girl, sex scene, obsessive love ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: chicago, new york
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Falling Like This (2001)
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: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, on the run, love and romance, youth, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, fall in love, couples, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: california
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26%
Some Things That Stay (2004)
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.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sexual
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: youth, family relations, love affair, teenage love, family problems, lifestyle, society, love and romance, teenage life, life turned upside down, family life, farm ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is ...
Style: historical romance, independent film, erotic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: gypsy, virgin, sensuality, family relations, looking for love, tragic love, small town, adolescence vs adulthood, village, unfulfilled love, social differences, village life ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england, europe, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Parsley Days (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A young woman mulls how to terminate her unwanted pregnancy and whether to leave her boyfriend.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, experimental, offbeat ...
Plot: pregnancy, starting over, couples, love and romance, youth, adoption, breakup, family problems, hopes, babies and infants, teenage love, teenage pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: nova scotia
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22%
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2 Young (2005)
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, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: teenage pregnancy, teenage love, on the run, forbidden love, social differences, couples, young lovers, lifestyle, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet, their daughter. The two are ...
Style: romantic, dramatic, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, true love, star crossed lovers, young lovers, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, family feud, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages
Place: italy, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Liar's Moon (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, teenage love, teenager, coming of age, love, infidelity, social differences, parents and children, computers and web, small town life, small town, teenage life ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: texas, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Love Hurts (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by sending her to Canada. The story remarks the difference ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: teenage love, forbidden love, against the odds, social differences, poverty, wealth, fall in love, youth, society, young lovers, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico city, mexico, latin america
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21%
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Beautiful Fall (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, freeze frame
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, eccentric family, teenage love, love and romance, fall in love, countryside, teenage life, parents and children, estate, bittersweet, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
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20%
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The Best of Me (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, high school sweetheart, true love, love affair, lovers reunited, small town, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, road not taken, young love, couples ...
Time: year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, love, post war, love triangle, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, farm, male female relationship, love affair, tragic love ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: patient, twins, memory, terminal illness, hospital, bittersweet, friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, love and romance, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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20%
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The Voyage (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar steps in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, tragic love, last wish, love story, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, terminal illness ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1900s
Place: sicily, italy, venice, europe
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20%
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First Love (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Golden-haired college soccer player William Katt falls hard for campus beauty Susan Dey, despite the fact that she's the mistress of an older, married attorney.
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, touching
Plot: love, love triangle, college, male nudity, bare breasts, lust, lawyer, soccer, mistress, nudity, college life, school ...
Time: 50s
Place: oregon
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20%
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Foxfire Light (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A spoiled rich girl used to getting her way comes up against a rancher who won't be intimidated by her.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, family relations, parents and children, love triangle, bare chested male, rural setting, girl, wealth, rich girl ...
Time: 80s
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19%
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot: couples, family relations, tragic love, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, looking for love, baby born, diary, baby, holiday, letter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Too Young to Marry (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lovers reunited, hopes, fall in love, love and romance, interracial relations, couples, wish come true, college life, unfulfilled love, coming of age, youth, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Hey Babu Riba (1985)
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: contemplative, gloomy, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: pregnancy, boat, female nudity, yacht, funeral, teenage crush, loss of virginity, bittersweet, politics, friendship, couples, young lovers ...
Time: year 1985, 50s
Place: former yugoslavia
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19%
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The Affair (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: disability, polio, terminal illness, songwriter, lawyer, love, family relations, couples, unlikely couple, forbidden love, unfulfillment, young lovers ...
Time: 70s
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19%
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 ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: indonesia
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19%
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See Girl Run (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, couples, small town, unfulfillment, ex lover, love and romance, family relations, coming of age, graduation, thirtysomething life, dull life, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine, new england
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19%
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David and Lisa (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: split personality, love hurts, social relations, power relations, family relations, love and romance, hopes, unfulfillment, misfit, unlikely couple, youth, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Empty Hours (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The second film from Aarón Fernández is a Spain-Mexico-France co-production already screened as part of Films in Progress at the 60th edition of the Festival. On the desolate coast of Veracruz, young Sebastián, 17, has to run his uncle's ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: coming of age, love and romance, teenage love, youth, teenage life, older woman younger man relationship, seduction, motel, seaside, couples, sex, older woman younger man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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19%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida
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19%
Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu (Zhou Dong-Yu) is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San (Shawn Dou), a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: tragic love, social differences, forbidden love, revolution, society, youth, love and romance, unfulfilled love, fall in love, young lovers, totalitarian regime, terminal illness ...
Time: 2010s, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Year of the Nail (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, experimental ...
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, love affair, couples, hopes, unfulfilled love, teenage life, friendship, society, loss of virginity, looking for sex, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Ronnie & Julie (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this modern day version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' a rising hockey star and a figure skater with a bright future fall in love. However, they find themselves on opposite sides of the rink due to the fierce rivalry between their parents.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: couples, teen angst, skating, hockey, ice hockey, family relations, teenage life, high school, love affair, tragic love, unfulfilled love, young lovers ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Endless Love (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, forbidden love, teen romance, teenage love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, father daughter relationship, relationships, couples, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Serenades (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, tragic love, culture clash, human spirit, injustice, true love, parents and children, society, hopes, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: australia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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