Movies like Dearest Jane

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Dearest Jane (2015)
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Dearest Jane (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
Style: psychological, touching, tense, suspense, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
Plot: love, friendship, death, family relations, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, acceptance, husband wife relationship, youth, love and romance, uncle niece relationship, small town, gay, religion, romance
Place: indiana
Keyword: change

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, touching, contemplative and sincere films with plots about love and romance, love, family relations, youth, couples, friendship and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Dearest Jane: Cry Me a Sad River (2018), You Shine in the Moonlight (2019), Over the Dark Water (1993), Don't Look at Me That Way (2015), Keeper (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cry Me a Sad River (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Qi Ming is a handsome boy and he is also a top student at school, but Yi Yao is a so-called bitch on everyone’s lips. Qi and Yi grew up together and they have been maintaining a good relationship. However, everything is interrupted and changed by ...
Style: suspense, psychological, touching, thought provoking, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: bullying, high school, first love, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, youth, suicide attempt, childhood friend, aids, mother daughter relationship, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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95%
You Shine in the Moonlight (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Takuya Okada (Takumi Kitamura) is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase (Mei Nagano) in the hospital. Mamizu Watarase suffers from the mysterious ailment “Luminescence disease.” People who have the disease show a faint ...
Style: psychological, touching, sincere, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: love, terminal illness, teenage girl, hospitalized person, bucket list, high school friend, hospitalization, girl, japanese teenager, teenager, hospital, japanese schoolgirl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Over the Dark Water (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, psychological, melancholic
Plot: friendship, love, family drama, husband wife relationship, family relations, family problems, couples, life philosophy, jealousy, love and romance, destiny, love triangle ...
Time: 90s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Don't Look at Me That Way (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Mongolia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a relationship and Iva is desperately in love with Hedi. Suddenly Iva’s father appears. Hedi feels strongly attracted to him. It seems that only one ...
Style: sexy, psychological, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot: lgbt, estranged family member, adulthood, single mother, lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbian, lesbian interest, love and romance, lesbian relationship, couple relations, lesbian couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mongolia, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Keeper (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Maxime and Mélanie are a typical teenage couple. Like most lovestruck fifteen-year-olds, they can't get enough of each other and they think they'll be together forever. But when Mélanie becomes pregnant, their worlds are rocked.
Style: touching, psychological, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: young love, teenager, football, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy, teenage girl, pregnancy, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, baby, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Endless Possibility of Sky (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sex and drugs-getting hooked and getting off –can be addicting. For Drew (Brad Hallowell), eking out a mundane life in Waterville, Maine, it is resisting the illicit pleasure in New York; for Mistress Datina (Philly), it means operating a sex and ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, tense, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot: gay, drug addict, drug addiction, drug, sexuality, hiv, homelessness, drug abuse, porn star, drug dealer, danger, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Surface (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Evan, an orphaned 22-year-old who grew up in the foster care system, buys a vintage 8mm camera in a yard sale from an elderly man, ends up with reels of the man's old home movies, and begins to live vicariously through these home movies.
Style: psychological, touching, contemplative, sexy, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, relationships, gay relationship, lgbt, love, love and romance, older man younger woman relationship, gay couple, couples, couple relations, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Fathers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 'LOVE' starts with two people, but 'FAMILY' is more than just the two.
Style: psychological, romantic, captivating, melancholic, tense ...
Plot: lgbt, gay interest, gay, gay slur, gay lead character, father son relationship, couple relations, love and romance, couples, love, parenthood, fatherhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Orca (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eleven people, isolated from the outside world, communicate via screens. A son wants to hold the hand of his suffering mother. Love grows. A mother has abandoned her family. A therapist finds himself at the edge of ruin. A daughter connects with her ...
Style: tense, psychological, melancholic, captivating, unusual plot structure
Plot: pandemic, family relations, epidemic, human nature, society, parents and children, friendship, humanity, youth, life philosophy, husband wife relationship
Place: eastern europe
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Stuff (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: lesbian, love affair, lesbian relationship, family relations, lgbt, lgbtq, sister sister relationship, love, parents and children, love and romance, couples, parent child relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Porcupine Lake (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world ...
Style: psychological, contemplative, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Plot: teenage girl, coming of age, summer, lesbian, friendship, girl, childhood, lgbtq, friends, love and romance, youth, society ...
Place: canada, ontario canada
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50%
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Happy End?! (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lucca is in the middle of her A-level exams, heading for a career as a high-flying lawyer when she is mistakenly accused of criminal damage and sentenced to community service in a hospice. There she meets Valerie who is determined to carry out the ...
Style: romantic, sexy, psychological, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbian romance, woman, father daughter relationship, female nudity, love and romance, gay love, escapades, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Christmas Edition (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It’s Christmas time and Jackie, an up-and- coming journalist, finds that her life is at a crossroads until she finds an unexpected opportunity – to run a small-town newspaper in Alaska. Jackie decides to give it a try and relocates to the small ...
Style: romantic, emotional, talky, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, male female relationship, journalist, photographer, newspaper, job offer, northern lights, love and romance, friends, couple relations, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san diego california, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
How Not to Disappear Completely (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story: 'How Not To Disappear Completely' follows a week in the life of a young photographer Tom as he returns to London after spending two years traveling in India. Tom is at a crossroads in his life. A stranger in the cold hard city, he ...
Style: sincere, melancholic, psychological, touching
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, secret, grownups, commitment, father daughter relationship, love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, death of father, friendship, fear, friend ...
Place: london, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Honeyglue (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After learning she only has three months to live, Morgan flips her conservative protected life upside down. That is where she meets Jordan, a purse snatching cross dresser artist, who takes her on adventure of a lifetime.
Style: sexy, queer cinema
Plot: cancer, lgbtq, lgbt, terminal illness, love, gender, death, desire for fame, cross dressing, husband wife relationship, bisexual, husband and wife ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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That's Not Us (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three twenty-something couples, one gay, one lesbian, and one straight, travel to a beach house to enjoy the last days of summer, but what should be a fun and carefree weekend becomes an exploration of what it takes to sustain a healthy relationship.
Style: psychological, sexy, humorous, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lesbian, lgbtq, couples, couple relations, lgbtqi, love, love and romance, friendship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Lust Stories (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An anthology of four stories that sheds light on modern relationships from the viewpoint of the Indian woman.
Style: anthology, touching, sincere, captivating, tense ...
Plot: vengeance, parents and children, dishonesty, family relations, betrayal, college, youth, fall in love, disorder, danger, friendship, escapades ...
Place: india, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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For One Night (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combining the proms, which would also mean more money for decorations. However, her idea shook the town up, ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sexual
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school, racism, racial tension, family relations, small town, prom, teenage life, society, lifestyle, youth, friendship, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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THE WEDDING (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt, UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A young Muslim man, Rami, who is engaged to a young woman named Sara. We soon discover that Sam is also involved on the side with a young male artist named Lee.
Style: lgbt cinema, psychological, suspenseful, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, muslim, loneliness, bisexual, gay interest, gay slur, love, forced marriage, couples, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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46%
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Liar's Moon (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, teenage love, teenager, coming of age, love, infidelity, social differences, parents and children, computers and web, small town life, small town, teenage life ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: texas, louisiana, usa
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45%
Most Eligible Bachelor (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A well-educated, ‘settled’ NRI falls for a stand-up comedian and wants to marry her. But when she knows what she wants from her husband, will he fit the bill?
Style: talky, emotional, touching, romantic
Plot: love, marriage, love and romance, husband wife relationship, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, couples, youth, lovers, true love, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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45%
The Only Thrill (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfaithfulness, widow, small town, hospital, bittersweet, family problems, social relations, couples, family relations, single parent, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1997, 60s, 90s, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: forbidden love, love and romance, youth, student life, professor, college, society, friendship, age difference, daughter, college life, student ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Loev (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When hot shot, Wall Street dealmaker Jai thinks of putting some pleasure into his 48 hour business trip to Mumbai, Sahil, his young, music-producer friend, drops everything, including his reckless boyfriend Alex, to help him execute the perfect ...
Style: lgbt cinema, light, touching, psychological, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, gay romance, friendship between men, rape, gay interest, friendship, lgbtq, lgbt, love, friends, couples, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mumbai india, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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See Girl Run (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, couples, small town, unfulfillment, ex lover, love and romance, family relations, coming of age, graduation, thirtysomething life, dull life, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Escape from Polygamy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Recently-widowed Leann and her 17-year-old daughter Julina move into an isolated polygamous compound, where the freethinking Julina meets like-minded Ryder, son of the religious compound’s charismatic Prophet, Ervil.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: polygamy, religion, community, religious leader, fall in love, tragic romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, forbidden love, social relations, couple relations, lovers apart ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Loverboy (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. Since they start seeing each other she turns into a totally different person
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: forced prostitution, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, male objectification, teacher, teenager, school, mother daughter relationship, rape, police, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Our Town (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
Plot: literary, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, wedding, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, small town, death, ghost, funeral, brother sister relationship, death in childbirth ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s
Place: new england, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Beautiful Something (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four diverse gay men navigate art, sex and love in one sublime night.
Style: sexy, light, melancholic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, homosexual, gay sex, gay subtext, love, lgbtq, couples, youth, love and romance, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride (2018)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: It’s a full Valentine’s Day weekend at the Inn when Olivia and Mick host Mick’s sister Bonnie and her finance Sean, Mick’s daughter Julie and her boyfriend Wyatt, and Olivia’s mother Nora and her boyfriend Johnny. Bonnie brings her new ...
Style: emotional, romantic, psychological, melancholic, talky ...
Plot: wedding ceremony, true love, wedding, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, valentine's day, wedding dress, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, love and romance, family relations, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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