Movies like Sooner or Later

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Sooner or Later (1979)
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Sooner or Later (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. When she finally captures his interest, she lies and tells him she's 16. But what will Michael do when he discovers the truth?
Style: grindhouse, cute, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: chick flick
Plot: young love, age difference, youth, rock, love and romance, fall in love, self discovery, teenage life, innocence lost, musician's life, switching roles, pretense, artists and showbiz, musician, rock star, coming of age, young, band, make believe, romance
Time: 70s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, youth, fall in love, coming of age, couples, teenage life and young mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Sooner or Later: Pop Star (2013), Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002), Don't Let Me Drown (2009), Gypsy 83 (2001), 2 Young (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pop Star (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When talented young singer, Roxie Santos, meets music producer, Eddie Marz, he promises her an amazing new lifestyle and a future record deal. All he needs her to do is first lend her voice to a celebrity with no singing talent. However, when things ...
Style: serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: musician's life, desire for fame, follow your dream, teenage life, lifestyle, hopes, artists and showbiz, love and romance, youth, music band, teenage love, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot: love affair, teenage life, couples, couple relations, infidelity, lovers reunited, fall in love, bittersweet, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, young love, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
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, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, family relations, youth, society, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.8
 2K
Gypsy 83 (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.
Style: road movie, gothic, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: goth, music band, self discovery, friendship, on the road, gay lead character, on the run, artists and showbiz, twins, lifestyle, misfit, betrayal ...
Place: usa, ohio, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 6.5
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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 ⇓
50%
 6.2
 346
Boys Life 3 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Jason Gould satirizes coming out in Hollywood in Inside Out, starring Alexis Arquette and papa Elliot Gould. Lane Janger's Just One Time was a festival favorite recently expanded into a feature film that turns the tables on a groom-to-be and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, youth, friendship, self discovery, teenage life, couples, sexual relations, closeted homosexual, relationships, gay love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Falling Overnight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Falling Overnight tells the story of twenty-two year old Elliot Carson on the day before he has risky surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing what could be his last night, Elliot’s path intersects with Chloe Webb, a young photographer who invites ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, sentimental, cute ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, lifestyle, cancer, male female relationship, brain tumor, escapades, photographer, terminal illness, coming of age, thoughtful, hipster, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Lola (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins.
Style: grindhouse, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, age difference, sex, girl, age-gap relationship, young love, older man young girl relationship, may december romance, teenage girl, lolita, couples ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Ginger in the Morning (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A recently divorced Santa Fe architect is surprised to find himself falling in love with a free-spirited young hitchhiker.
Style: independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: young love, age difference, hitchhiker, drunkenness, bus, new year's eve, coffee, new year's eve party, free spirit, war buddy, older man younger woman relationship, on the road ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy for a look into the local rock and roll scene as a groupie to ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, musician's life, innocence lost, groupie, young lovers, best friend, lifestyle, teenage life, teenage love, music band, suburbs ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.2
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Italian Key (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, young lovers, social relations, love and romance, self discovery, fall in love, fish out of water, siblings relations, estate, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Love is the Word (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, first love, love and romance, family relations, youth, first sexual experience, hopes, parents and children, village, teenager, age difference, teenage sex ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
38%
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Sequoia (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.
Style: humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, fall in love, death wish, bittersweet, family relations, obsession, illness, cancer, suicide, life is a bitch, love and romance, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A between-the-sheets peek at Black Love and Sexuality
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: couples, teenage life, sexual relations, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, society, city life, teenage love, twentysomething life, artists and showbiz, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Dream Prince (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 14-year old Em likes to hang around in her old play house. One day a boy, Jakob, sets fire to it, and Em catches a brief glimpse of him before he disappears. They meet again a few days later. For the first time in her life, Em falls in love. Plot by ...
Style: teen, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: european, first love, teenager, family relations, parents and children, teenage love, teenage life, society, love and romance, coming of age, innocence lost, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Stay Cool (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film centers on a successful author who is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, homecoming, high school life, hometown, disorder, prom, friends, teenage life, artists and showbiz, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.9
 1K
Jeremy (1973)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jeremy Jones is learning cello at an arts school in New York. At school he spots Susan Rollins, who practices for a ballet audition, and he falls in love on first sight. He's very diffident in nearing her, so he gets some help of his ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, cello, fall in love, teenage love, age difference, young lovers, chess, love, child, in love, children, childhood love ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.9
 474
Johan (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Johan Dros is born as eleventh consecutive son of soccer-obsessed pa Rinus, who raises his boys mainly as the small island Texel's team. Johan's rare reprieves from training for a sport he doesn't care for cease when ma dies. After ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, coming of age, sport team, fall in love, family life, ambition, youth, gender, obsession, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, love at first sight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
This Is My Father (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: love, coming of age, small town, bittersweet, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, young love, father, couple relations, society, self discovery, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1998
Place: ireland, illinois, chicago, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.6
 569
Bridal Fever (2008)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It’s a race to the altar when a steamy romance novelist with a long line of torrid romances – and ex-husbands – sets out to help a single woman ditch her bridesmaid dresses once and for all.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couple relations, writer's life, couples, fall in love, looking for love, boss and employee, power relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, lifestyle
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school.
Style: feel good, teen, romantic, cute, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, best friend, tomboy, love triangle, love, friendship, teenager, teenage love, teen romance, friends to lovers, love story ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The American Mall (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The executive producers of High School Musical keep the good times rolling with this upbeat musical comedy set in the one place every American teenager's home away from home - the local shopping mall. Ally (Nina Dobrev) is an optimistic ...
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: musician, musician's life, save the day, rise to the top, youth, love and romance, lifestyle, rising to stardom, couple relations, desire for fame, teenage life, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.8
 10K
Song One (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Estranged from her family, Franny returns home when an accident leaves her brother comatose. Retracing his life as an aspiring musician, she tracks down his favorite musician, James Forester. Against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s music scene, Franny ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: wooing, love and romance, couple relations, coping, homecoming, fall in love, self discovery, estrangement, music, hospital, art, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.0
 92K
The Last Song (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.
Style: touching, romantic, serious, teen, emotional ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: fall in love, love, teenage love, teenage life, father daughter relationship, youth, teen romance, love and romance, parents and children, love story, cancer, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: georgia, north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.0
 2K
Fresh Horses (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She says she's 20, but he finds out she's 16 and married to an abusive husband.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: brat pack, older man younger woman relationship, college, infidelity, age difference, young love, older man young girl relationship, teenager, friendship, love affair, social differences, dishonesty ...
Time: 1930s
Place: kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Milenge Milenge (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Magic happens, if you let it; and sometimes even fate or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, steps in to lend a hand. But when it concerns love, and finding that special person you're going to spend the rest of your life with, should you ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lovers reunited, fall in love, love and romance, looking for love, hopes, fate, college student, diary, destiny, hindi, bollywood
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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