Movies like Forbidden Fruit
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Forbidden Fruit (2009)
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Original name: Kielletty hedelmä
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, captivating, realistic
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, best friends, teenage life, religion, conservatism, youth, lifestyle, culture clash, fish out of water, friendship, christianity, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, friendship between girls, first sexual experience, sex, teenager, dancing, priest, faith, church, cinema, sexuality ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, finland, helsinki finland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about youth, coming of age, teenage life, teenager, friendship, friends and family relations mostly in Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Forbidden Fruit: Faith (2010), It Felt Like Love (2013), Girlhood (2014), Run Sister Run! (2010), Being 14 (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict with deeply-rooted ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, atmospheric, realistic
Plot:
introspection, self discovery, haunted by the past, family relations, love and romance, hopes, society, youth, against the rules, rebellion, adolescence vs adulthood, forbidden love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to ...
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sexy, emotional, realistic, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, obsession, self discovery, teenage girl, sexuality, best friends, friendship, wooing, teenager, loss of virginity, first sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in ...
Style:
sentimental, captivating, touching, serious, feminist film ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, society, teenager, youth, peer pressure, street gang, against the rules, drugs, dull life, teenage life, innocence lost ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, semi serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, rebelliousness, self discovery, life turned upside down, juvenile delinquency, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, family problems, social relations, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, teenage life, youth, drug abuse, sexuality, self discovery, college, strong female presence, best friends, life is a bitch, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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800
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the dullest summer ever. Everything changes at Midsummer when Aku meets Juli, a beautiful, strange and ...
Style:
light, captivating, feel good, sincere, erotic ...
Plot:
sex scene, love, friendship, summer, lifestyle, mentor, teenager, on the road, life philosophy, making love, gay, coming of age ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Hungary
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Betty and her friend V have a major project: the open-air music festival, Sziget Festival held every summer on one of the Danube islands in Hungary. Instead of money the teenagers have a stash of grass waiting for a buyer. Food? Nothing wrong with ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Plot:
friendship, youth, coming of age, best friends, teenage life, friendship between girls, adulthood, teenage girl, festival, music, friends, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
This Belgian drama is about the special bond between father and daughter. Paul is a 46 year old PI. Dorothy is almost 16 and has an identity crisis when she finds out her father isn't her biological father. Her mother won't tell her ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, unknown father, obsession, teenage life, youth, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, paternity revealed, fatherhood, nightclub, coming of age, flashback ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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321
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Sonja is struggling to deal with her parent separation, and find her feelings for her best friend might not just be a phase.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sincere, touching, sexual ...
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date night, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, lesbian, friendship, love and romance, family relations, youth, friends, couples, coming out, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, best friends ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
religion, mother daughter relationship, catholic, parents and children, teenage life, journey, society, coming of age, children, life is a bitch, church, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
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teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, faith, dysfunctional family, religion, village, mother daughter relationship, crisis of faith, belief in god, self discovery, teenage love, family problems, clergy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany, europe
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist ...
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coming of age, single parent, family relations, self discovery, introspection, best friends, teenage life, lgbt, society, youth, direction and purpose, coming out ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their ...
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realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, friends, society, lifestyle, prostitution, friendship, rivalry, troubled youth, teenage pregnancy, teenage sex, urban ghetto, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the ...
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Plot:
gay, friendship, teenage life, friends, buddies, lifestyle, city life, on the road, lgbt, suspense, teenager, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they're both 17 and enjoying the ups and downs of becoming adults together. While Kati's parents are religious and conservative, but argue constantly, Steffi comes from what ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, touching, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
first sex, youth, virgin, best friend, moral dilemma, teenage life, parent child relationship, envy, teenage crush, rivalry, vengeance, puberty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's the last summer in Falkenberg for five childhood friends. David yearns to be a child again and Holger never wants to move away. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jörgen finances his ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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51%
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 ...
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realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, talky
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Plot:
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Place:
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Moa is in her early 20s, works at a factory and lives by herself in a cottage in the forest. She is a vegan and follows her friends and demonstrations, mostly to fit in. But at home, by herself, she listens to pop music and use make-up.
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serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
small town, vegetarian, family relations, youth, teenage life, friendship, relationships, teenager, coming of age, feminism, aging, adoption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
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51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Time:
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
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serious, emotional, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a ...
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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.
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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