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Memento Mori (1999)
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Memento Mori (1999)
Original name: 여고괴담 두번째 이야기
Genre: Horror, Romance, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The film revolves around the relationship between two high school students, Yoo Shi-Eun and Min Hyo-Shin. As the two girls become romantically involved, their taboo friendship causes them to be marginalized by the other students. Unable to cope with the social pressures of having a lover of the same gender, Shi-Eun tries to distance herself from the increasingly dependent Hyo-Shin.
Style: queer horror, psychological thriller, thought provoking, dark, dark drama, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, crying
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, telepathy, youth, gays and lesbians, lesbian relationship, extreme, nightmare, love, post apocalypse, friendship, macabre, parasite, suicide, lesbian teen, evil child, gay slur, high school, diary, entertainment, lgbtq, asian girl, female homosexuality, haunting, crazy love ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, korea, south korea
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, queer cinema and touching films with plots about youth, love and romance, friendship, gays and lesbians, coming of age, kiss and gender mostly in Drama, Romance and Horror genres. Some movies like Memento Mori: Wishing Stairs (2003), Whispering Corridors (1998), Jack & Diane (2012), Voice (2005), Looking for Cheyenne (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wishing Stairs (2003)
Genre: Horror, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, dark drama, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, paranormal, friendship, curses spells and rituals, obsession, boarding school, extreme, rivalry, forbidden love, asian girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Whispering Corridors (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: While investigating the school files, the frightened teacher Mrs. Park startles and calls the young teacher Eun-young Hur, telling her that the deceased Jin-ju Jang is back. The line dies and Mrs. Park is attacked and killed by a ghost. On the next ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, friendship, high school, bullying, supernatural, paranormal, supernatural ability, who done it, haunting, dark past, maniac, sadism ...
Time: 90s
Place: korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Jack & Diane (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane's charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack's tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, stylized, erotic, profound ...
Audience: teens
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbianism, werewolf, lesbian teen, lesbian interest, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian, self discovery, teenage life, fall in love, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.2
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Voice (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: While training after hours in her high-school, the aspirant singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her best friend Kang Sun-min, who broadcast in the lunchtime in ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, queer horror ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: ghost, friendship, haunted by the past, youth, investigation, danger, supernatural, hearing voices, elevator, macabre, parasite, darkness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Looking for Cheyenne (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, ...
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, sexy, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, true love, gays and lesbians, countryside, lifestyle, couples, breakup, lgbtq, lgbt, fired from the job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, italy, bolivia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Let the Right One In (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
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Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Truth About Jane (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, disturbing ...
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50%
The Nature of Nicholas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Nature of Nicholas is a surreal story of twelve-year-old Nicholas as he struggles with an attraction to his best friend.
Style: touching, serious, surreal, captivating, queer horror ...
Plot: coming of age, zombie, friendship, sexual orientation, school, teenage love, teenage life, gay, youth, fall in love, obsession, family relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Lost and Delirious (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lost and Delirious is the story of three adolescent girls' first love, their discovery of sexual passion, and their search for identities. Set in a posh, private boarding school surrounded by luxuriant, green forest, Lost and Delirious moves ...
Style: touching, sexy, psychological, depressing, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian teen, coming of age, lesbian love, sapphic, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, gender, lesbian lover, boarding school, youth, lesbian sex ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Full Speed (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style: erotic, contemplative, serious, realistic, sexual ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
My Summer of Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
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Time: 2000s, year 2004
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Only the Brave (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: lgbt, coming of age, erotica, incest, sexual abuse, friendship, drug abuse, teachers and students, life is a bitch, love and romance, self discovery, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
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41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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41%
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Duration: 85 min.
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Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Duration: 88 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
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Duration: 94 min.
Story: An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
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Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
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Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Foxfire (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
Style: teen, touching, realistic, sincere, spectacular ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
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Audience: teens, teen drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.5
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Show Me Love (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: sexual, teen, heartbreaking, sentimental, cult classic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Children's Hour (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A troublemaking student at a girl's school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.
Style: sad, emotional, touching, realistic, talky ...
Plot: lesbian, gay, gender, girls' school, bigotry, unrequited love, false accusation, evil child, bullying, prejudice, tragedy, women ...
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35%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Switzerland, France
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Style: stylized, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Duration: 93 min.
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Style: sincere, realistic, clever, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
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33%
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Duration: 92 min.
Story: A sensuous and ethereal story of two young women falling in love for the first time. Young, beautiful Àsia lies in a coma, her mother and boyfriend keeping constant vigil by her side. In flashback we see what led up to her accident, her life ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: teens, adult
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Flirting (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic ...
Style: realistic, touching, romantic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Love in Thoughts (2004)
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Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: serious, disturbing, stylized, realistic, sexual ...
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31%
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Half Light (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Close to Leo (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+, his family quickly rallys around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, youth, hiv, gays and lesbians, friendship, brother brother relationship, lgbt, coming of age, tragic hero, life is a bitch, family problems, family life ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and ...
Style: art house, sexual, sexy, erotic, surreal ...
Audience: adult
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Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, australia, west germany, frankfurt germany, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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