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N.O.I.R. (2015)
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N.O.I.R. (2015)
Original name: NOIR
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: NOIR chronicles the lives of four people living in a neighborhood plagues by poverty and violence, aspiring to freedom and happiness. Kadhafi, a 26 year old aspiring rapper and ex-member of a street gang, just out of prison, wants to steer clear of troubles. Fleur, a 17 year old Haitian mother in an abusive and passionate relationship with her daughter's father, dreams of leaving the ghetto and becoming a nurse. Suzie, a 20 year old stripper who falls for a gang member. Dickens, 16 year old Haitian wants to be part of the street gang controlled by his older brother.
Style: psychological, touching, tense, sentimental, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot: organized crime, drug dealer, gang member, teenage boy, gang, rapper, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, released from prison, immigrant, love, youth, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, couples, couple relations, heroes, friendship, friends, life is a bitch, fall in love, coming of age, culture clash, drug ...
Place: montreal, canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, tense, unusual plot structure and contemplative films with plots about youth, love and romance, couples, love, family relations, friends and teenager mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like N.O.I.R.: Cry Me a Sad River (2018), Chicken (2015), Keeper (2015), Loverboy (2017), The Eiffel Tower Mystery (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%
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Chicken (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their ...
Style: touching, contemplative, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, first love, learning disability, farm, caravan, teenager, friendship, fall in love, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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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
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77%
 6.0
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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
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense, tense ...
Plot: lesbian, interracial relations, couples, love and romance, love, couple relations, murder, friendship, danger, youth, fall in love, friends ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Silk Road (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A psychological thriller inspired by the life of Michael S., a small-town boy from Holland, who becomes the world's most wanted cybercriminal.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot: internet, drug trade, black market, fraud, friend, drug, smuggling, drug traffic, drug use, teenager, criminal, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: netherlands
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67%
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Natasha (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman ...
Style: erotic, touching, unusual plot structure, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, teenage sexuality, teenage boy, first love, teenager, teenage protagonist, fall in love, youth, family relations, love, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada
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63%
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Lottery (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails ...
Style: psychological, tense, sentimental, touching, suspense ...
Plot: aspiration, family relations, immigration, green card, love, islam, american dream, troubled marriage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, usa, persia
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North Mountain (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Wolf, a young métis hunter living on the mountain. While hunting deep in the woods he discovers Crane, an older man with a mysterious past and the scars to prove it. Wolf nurses him back to health. Over time their bond gets deeper and they fall in ...
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: gay lead character, gay, gay interest, revenge, ex convict, hunter, love and romance, rescue, couples, love, gangster, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 870
Ville-Marie (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Celebrated European actor Sophie Bernard is in Montreal shooting a movie, and she's taking the opportunity to visit her son Thomas in the hope of bridging the rift that's grown between them. But Thomas has his own agenda for their time ...
Style: sexy, psychological, touching, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, motherhood, heart condition, estrangement, post traumatic stress disorder, gay interest, family relations, couples, youth, love, love and romance, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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54%
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Do it Right (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenage boy, teenage girl, school, high school, death of mother, youth, parents and children, society, mother son relationship, love and romance ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: paris france
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54%
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Bird (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be ...
Style: exciting, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, love, murder, danger, gangster, violence, chase, love and romance, friends, couple relations, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.7
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Marmalade Boy (2018)
Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.
Style: psychological, sexy, suspense, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, teenage girl, japanese teenager, half brother half sister relationship, teenage boy, marriage, divorce, father daughter relationship, teenager, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
Style: captivating, realistic, tense, psychological, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, youth, teenage life, social relations, drug, police, harvest, couples, teenager, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
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45%
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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, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: friendship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, acceptance, love, father daughter relationship, death, family relations, love and romance, uncle niece relationship, small town, youth ...
Place: indiana
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44%
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Miriam Lies (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
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Time: 21st century
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44%
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Psycho BFF (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Renee's shy teenage daughter Deandra finally makes a friend, Olivia, she is thrilled. After Olivia's initial bossiness turns into emotional abuse, Renee forbids the relationship from continuing, prompting the girls to run away ...
Style: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, suspense
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Time: 21st century
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Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, family relations, youth, society, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Voyoucratie (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that ...
Style: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative ...
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Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: france
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42%
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Genre: Drama
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Story: 16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and ...
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Tag (2015)
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Duration: 91 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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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 ...
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Easy Land (2019)
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Country: Canada
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, suspenseful ...
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36%
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Ekaj (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
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