Movies like Crush 1992

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Crush (1992)
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Crush (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertakes the assignment and becomes attracted to the novelist's 15 year old daughter, leading to stormy emotions.
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, independent film, psychological, road movie, sexy, bad ending, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: hospital, woman, friendship, love triangle, memory loss, love and romance, fugitives, journalism, couples, gays and lesbians, teenage life, rehabilitation, femme fatale, hidden identity, dishonesty, couple relations, cons and scams, masturbation, falling from height, brain damage, physical therapy, catastrophe, end of the world, gay, distopia ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new zealand, new jersey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, infidelity, dishonesty, love triangle and friendship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Crush: Sand Dollars (2014), Speak Like a Child (1998), Silver Tongues (2011), Guilty Hearts (2006), Little White Lie (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sand Dollars (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Every afternoon NoelĂ­, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However NoelĂ­ also has a steady ...
Style: serious, touching, atmospheric, realistic, queer cinema
Plot: moral dilemma, love and romance, gays and lesbians, cons and scams, rich and poor, dishonesty, society, lgbt, island, lesbian, woman, homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean
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95%
Speak Like a Child (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, lgbt, coming of age, best friend, bisexuality, love and romance, couple relations, orphan, unfulfillment, friends, couples, love triangle ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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81%
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Silver Tongues (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two lovers travel from town to town playing a dark game of deceit that soon spirals out of control, threatening their very relationship.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: hidden identity, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, juggling, love and romance, society, crumbling relationship, mental disorder, sexual content, infidelity, manipulation
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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75%
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Little White Lie (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Little White Lie follows the story of a luckless actor named Barry who has recently split from his girlfriend. He is seen wallowing at home in his pyjamas, where he becomes fixated on a children's television presenter who he sees on daytime ...
Style: serious, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, male female relationship, down on your luck, conundrum, therapist, actor, cigarette smoking, film within a film, tv show in film ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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59%
Behind Bedroom Doors (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: New-girl-in-town Abby is already dating two guys--one's a doctor, the other is running for district attorney. She also has some dirt on both of them---but when they find that she may potentially blackmail them, Abby discovers just how important ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, semi serious, sexual, erotic ...
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, couple relations, couples, femme fatale, blackmail, political candidate, threesome, oral sex, legal, gender, gays and lesbians ...
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59%
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Canvas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, couple relations, working class, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hospital, teenage life ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Orphans and Angels (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The needy and traumatized Theresa, who was raped when she was fourteen year-old, meets the handsome John on the street after an accident during a performance on the stage of her friend Kim asking for a low-budget hotel. She offers a ride to a nearby ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, sexual
Plot: drug abuse, obsession, haunted by the past, friendship, love affair, couples, mentally unstable, drug dealing, life is a bitch, youth, fall in love, addiction ...
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Sweet Ecstasy (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing ...
Style: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: hedonism, lovers on the run, beach, yacht, nihilism, foreplay, brother sister relationship, actress, student, couples, destructive relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: french riviera
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48%
A Change of Heart (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Beneath Jim Marshall's veneer as the all-American father and husband, lies a long suppressed desire that is about to ruin his idyllic family. When Elaine Marshall (Jean Smart) catches her husband and his lover in a hotel room, her anger quickly ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: gender, love, unfaithful husband, breakup, love affair, family in crisis, teenage life, infidelity, family life, suburban life, dysfunctional family, suburbs ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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A Trip (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Style: emotional, realistic, road movie, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, love triangle, on the road, journey, coming of age, youth, lgbt, lesbian, nomad, picnic, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovenia
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46%
Those Secrets (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: couples, dishonesty, vengeance, love and romance, prostitute, infidelity, bored housewife, husband wife relationship, therapy, prostitution, call girl
Time: 90s
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46%
Dreaming of Space (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, sentimental, serious, captivating ...
Plot: love triangle, optimism, friendship, couples, rebellion, couple relations, mysterious character, society, small town, social relations, cosmonaut, communism ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: russia, soviet union
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45%
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Freeway (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alex, 25 years old, lives a life divided between his custom car that he pampers to the point of insanity, his friends, his girlfriend, whose baby girl he had under duress, and his job as a forklift operator. An exclusive passion, with its rituals ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy
Plot: life turned upside down, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, male female relationship, friendship, family crisis, family problems, disorder, family in crisis, police officer, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Amnesty (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Albania, Greece, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian movie directed by Buyar Alimani. It’s a story about two people who meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but relationship has ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching, erotic ...
Plot: prison, forbidden love, infidelity, love affair, couples, love and romance, couple relations, life is a bitch, fall in love, dishonesty, pardon, legislation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: albania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style: christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friendship, bittersweet, self discovery, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, food, christian, abortion ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
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45%
Hope for Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young woman is faced with a tough decision to stay with her husband and father of her son who is cheating on her. She takes a vacation where she runs into an old flame and begins to rekindle their chemistry. Torn between the two, she intends to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, dishonesty, couples, introspection, betrayal, self discovery, relocation, love and romance, urban, escape
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
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45%
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Summer Nights (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Michele and Helene seem to be the perfect couple. However, on weekends, Michele steps into a secret life, as a transvestite, Mylene, in a hidden French forest. There, Mylene meets with a lover, Flavia, another transvestite who once fought alongside ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, sexy ...
Plot: hidden identity, forbidden love, dishonesty, couple relations, infidelity, love and romance, couples, under the surface, lgbt, double life, gay subtext, transvestism ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Double Standard (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of a judge who lives a double life, and stays married to two women for more than 15 years. While one knows nothing of the other, his second wife doesn't care that he is married already as long as he comes home to her as well. ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sexual
Plot: love, couples, injustice, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love triangle, infidelity, family relations, bigamist ...
Time: 80s
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44%
Signs & Wonders (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: infidelity, introspection, love affair, life turned upside down, love triangle, couple relations, crumbling marriage, betrayal, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, germany, greece, athens greece
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44%
The Music Teacher (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Music Teacher revolves around Alyson Daley (Potts), a high school music teacher who is on the brink of losing her beloved school music program because of district budget cuts. In an effort to spare the program, Daley's former students band ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: couples, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, teachers and students, strong female presence, high school, hopes, family relations, dedicated educator, artists and showbiz, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri
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43%
Matching Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style: sincere, uplifting, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, coming of age, hopes, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, bittersweet, terminal illness, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, child illness, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, ireland
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43%
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: friendship, age difference, senior citizen, couples, friends, human nature, introspection, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, unfulfillment, writer's life ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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42%
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The Stationmaster's Wife (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 201 min.
Story: The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town's siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
Style: avant garde, art house, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Plot: couples, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, dishonesty, betrayal, crumbling marriage, couple relations, destructive relationship, love and romance, love affair, sexual relations, lovers reunited ...
Time: year 1977
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42%
Missing William (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story follows Abby, a thirty-something artist living in Rhode Island caring for her husband William after he's tragically injured in a bar fight. As she attempts to coax him back to health, James, her childhood sweetheart and unrequited ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, sentimental, indie film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: renewed love, love triangle, moral dilemma, lovers reunited, life turned upside down, infidelity, couples, wounded, friendship, choice, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
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41%
Third Person Singular Number (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, contemplative, gloomy ...
Plot: against the rules, self discovery, society, lovers apart, injustice, rebellion, couple relations, couples, love triangle, social decay, life is a bitch, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
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41%
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Paju (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style: touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted by the past, true love, introspection, forbidden love, leaving home, couples, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, starting over, small town, small town life ...
Place: south korea, asia
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41%
Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n'er do well, Laevsky (Andrew Scott) and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya (Fiona Glascott). Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave her husband for him, but now wants to ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot: duel, betrayal, love triangle, couples, couple relations, uninhibited rivalry, human nature, tragic hero, rivalry, dishonesty, unfulfillment, downfall ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia, caucasus, black sea
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41%
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The Letter (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, moral dilemma, couples, love triangle, unfulfilled love, singer, car accident, concert, nun ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: portugal, france, paris france
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40%
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Crystal River (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story is of a married woman who, grieving her inability to have children, finds comfort and healing in her friendship with another man. It's about discovering grace in darkness and the unexpected places we find healing.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: infidelity, friendship, human nature, couples, family problems, mysterious character, love and romance, crumbling marriage, friends, bare chested male, married, woman ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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