Movies like Saint Clara

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Saint Clara (1996)
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Saint Clara (1996)
Original name: Clara Hakedosha
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The year is 1999 and the storyline is actually a number of sub-plots all revolving around the 13-year old Clara, a girl that can predict the future and has telekinetic powers. The sub-plots include a boy in her class who has a crush on her, his family, her family and her principal that keeps talking French for some strange reason.
Style: touching, offbeat, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot: israeli, israeli culture, supernatural, teenage love, youth, mathematics, family relations, family life, love and romance, supernatural ability, high school life, teenage life, high school, mischievous children, small town, coming of age, social relations, foreknowledge, immigrant, apocalypse, psychic, telekinesis, supernatural power, surrealism, lottery ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, near future
Place: israel, middle east
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, semi serious and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, youth, teenage life, coming of age, teenage love, family relations and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Saint Clara: Alex Is Lovesick (1986), Lost Islands (2008), Cheeky Girls (2008), Amy & Isabelle (2001), Man of Steel (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Turn Left at the End of the World (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, sweet ...
Plot: desert, friendship, racial discrimination, ethnic, immigrant, teenage love, social differences, teenage life, culture clash, settler, society, family relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: middle east, israel, palestine
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Alex Is Lovesick (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, female nudity, israeli, israeli culture, aunt, black market, bar mitzvah, family relations, love and romance, society, young heroes, fall in love ...
Time: 50s, 20th century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Lost Islands (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, family in crisis, teenage love, parents and children, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Cheeky Girls (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teen-aged girlfriends navigate multiple love triangles.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, sexual
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, high school life, school, young love, friends, youth, high school, teenage life, teachers and students, teenage crush, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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
Place: new england, maine
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Man of Steel (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A romantic and funny coming-of-age story. Victor, a 13-year-old boy, is desperately looking for his First Kiss. When that First Kiss comes too close, Victor seeks refuge in his imagination, becoming the Man of Steel who has no emotions, because ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, teenager, boy, teenage love, teenage life, young lovers, love and romance, fall in love, youth, superhero, imaginary, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: belgium, europe
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65%
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
Style: romantic, light, captivating, emotional, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: supernatural, love, magic, witch, youth, supernatural romance, supernatural ability, love and romance, teenage love, forbidden love, small town, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: south carolina, southern usa, usa
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64%
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Afula Express (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story: David is a garage electrician, who dreamt all of his life of becoming a magician, but had no luck in it. His girlfriend Batya wants an ordinary life, but David is still looking for his dream, so he links up with Romanian immigrant Shimon, who is an ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, uplifting, sentimental, offbeat ...
Plot: israeli, wizards and magicians, couples, follow your dream, love and romance, couple relations, hopes, failed attempt, magician, magic, cashier
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Booky's Crush (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: youth, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, society, love and romance, family life, parents and children, working class, coming of age, first love, child ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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60%
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Yana's Friends (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three parallel stories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: israeli, gulf war, immigrant, couple relations, society, fall in love, opposites attract, love and romance, couples, wartime life, pregnancy, photograph ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
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Teen's Confessions (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
Style: humorous, touching, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage love, parents and children, coming of age, family relations, high school life, youth, sister sister relationship, friendship, adolescence, love and romance, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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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 ⇓
55%
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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 ⇓
49%
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The Matchmaker (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story: During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
Style: sentimental, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: matchmaking, looking for love, love and romance, teenage life, best friend, apprentice, male female relationship, adaptation, holocaust, israeli culture, israeli, traumatic childhood ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: middle east, israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Valley (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
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Place: israel, palestine
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
Plot: fall in love, moral dilemma, love and romance, society, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, immigrant, misfit, emigration, engagement, identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Style: contemplative, sentimental, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, memory loss, teenage love, love triangle, self discovery, fall in love, social relations, youth, society, couples, amnesia, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Twilight (2008)
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Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, she starts school and meets the reclusive Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated ...
Style: romantic, sexy, touching, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen fantasy ...
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Go (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Isao Yukisada spins this gritty coming-of-age tale about Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean who struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him. The film begins with Sugihara studying at a Korean junior high school ...
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, sweet ...
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So Young (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In the brink of the 90s, 18-year-old Zheng Wei steps into her university life with a hopeful heart for love. She forms a great friendship with her roommates and united as a group, they embark on their university life together. Wei meets Chen ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching
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40%
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Swann (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
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40%
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, sexual, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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
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Style: touching, sexy, tense, contemplative, psychological ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
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36%
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Summer Rain (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, buddies, love and romance, obsession, teenage love, teenage life, best friend, coming of age, fascism, friends, youth, society ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Daydream Nation (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
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Audience: teens, teen drama
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36%
White as Milk, Red as Blood (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, psychological, humorous
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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36%
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