Movies like Due East

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Due East (2002)
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Due East (2002)
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, teenage pregnancy, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, youth, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, couples, lifestyle, society, father daughter relationship, 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 couples mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Due East: The Pregnancy Project (2012), Fifteen and Pregnant (1998), Sex & the Single Mom (2003), My Louisiana Sky (2001), Booky's Crush (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Pregnancy Project (2012)
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: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, teenage life, high school, family relations, youth, dishonesty, parents and children, teachers and students, teenage pregnancy, teenager, teaching, teen social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
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Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
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 ...
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Sex & the Single Mom (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexual
Plot: pregnancy, single parent, love, moral dilemma, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, society, youth, family problems, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 21st century
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My Louisiana Sky (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
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Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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Duration: 96 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere
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Time: 90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
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 ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, love and romance, disgraced, single parent, youth, family life, friendship, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
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28%
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Ricochet River (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
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23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Audience: girls' night, teen drama
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Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: pre-teens
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100%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
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Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: love and romance, contests and competitions, youth, couples, family relations, family gatherings, high school, sex talk, teacher student relationship, fear of commitment, school teacher, commitment ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 120 min.
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20%
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