Movies like Due East
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Due East (2002)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse (Forster), and pretty much stays to herself. But when she meets a loner who recently moved to the town of Due East, she feels a sense of belonging for the first time in her life.
Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, touching, contemplative
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
single parent, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, youth, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, couples, lifestyle, society, father daughter relationship, teenage pregnancy, teen angst, judgment, pregnancy, widower, high school, social relations, small town life, power relations, friendship, motorcycle, night school ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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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 youth, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, love and romance, coming of age and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Due East: Booky's Crush (2009), Virgin (2003), Face (2002), Amy & Isabelle (2001), Fifteen and Pregnant (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 89 min.
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Duration: 116 min.
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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28%
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471
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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925
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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