Movies like Adolescence 2018
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Adolescence (2018)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teenager from an abusive household falls in love with a free-spirited runaway that leads him into the fast-lane lifestyle of drugs and addiction which threatens to destroy him.
Plot:
drug addict, addiction, adultery, infidelity, stealing money, breaking and entering, drug, overdose, rock concert, coming of age, female nudity, pretty girl, bare breasts, drug use, drug trip, topless woman, nudity, heroine, female writer, abusive husband, cheating wife, naked breasts, nude, brunette, cleavage ...
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Most similar movies to Adolescence
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sexy and serious films with plots about female nudity, nude, couples, male nudity, nudity, drug and love and romance mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Adolescence: Falling Like This (2001), Sno Babies (2019), In My Pocket (2011), California (2015), A Rising Tide (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, couples, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, on the run, youth, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Kristen and Hannah are best friends–smart, likable and college-bound– and also addicted to heroin. The pair of seemingly unlikely addicts spiral down a path of destruction, hiding their secret from well-meaning but busy parents behind pink ...
Style:
romantic, depressing, touching, surprise ending, disturbing
Plot:
self destructing, addiction, overdose, pregnancy, human nature, unfulfillment, hopes, life is a bitch, lifestyle, junkie, girlfriend, obsession ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A harrowing journey down the dark spiral of drug addiction. As Stephen Jameson's carefully constructed life slowly falls apart, his belief system is shattered when he discovers that he's no longer the functioning addict that he once was.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, dark drama, psychological ...
Plot:
drug addiction, addiction, drug addict, drug abuse, life is a bitch, pills, couples, loss of control, self destructing, substance abuse, character study, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The year is 1984. Estela is going through the turbulent phase of adolescence. Sex, lovers, friendships; everything seems very complicated. Her uncle Carlos is her hero, and visiting him in California is her biggest dream. But everything collapses ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, vintage
Plot:
coming of age, lgbt, life is a bitch, family problems, teenage life, teenager, social problems, family in crisis, friendship, character change, adolescence, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An inspirational story of redemption, Hell of a View tells the tale of a young chef, Sam Rama. After the destruction of his family's well-established Atlantic City restaurant during Hurricane Sandy, Sam must grow up quickly, taking the biggest ...
Style:
motivational, touching, suspense, romantic drama, independent film
Plot:
restaurant, hurricane, redemption, family relations, food, forces of nature, human relationship, natural disaster, danger, rescue, trapped, survivor ...
Place:
atlantic city
Similarity:
100%
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, sincere, touching, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
teenage girl, 13 year old, coming of age, childhood, lgbtq, lesbian interest, summer, friends, society, love and romance, love, youth ...
Place:
ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A coming of age romantic drama set in 1972 based on real life events.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lgbt, gay teacher, naked in public, gay, male pubic hair, male nudity, love triangle, love affair, friendship, obsession, youth, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 21st century
Place:
virginia, southern usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course.
Style:
entertaining, melancholic, captivating, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love, bohemian life, teenage girl, group of friends, coming of age, unrequited love, teenage boy, lifestyle, friendship, relationships, party, love story ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Shy teenager Andrés lives in the Argentine city of La Plata and cycles between school, work and home listening to punk rock. One night he finds out that his idol, the lead singer of his favorite band, has committed suicide. His religious mother is ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, psychological, romantic, touching ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay teenager, gay youth, gay, grandmother grandson relationship, coming of age, gay couple, gay lead character, young lovers, friends, lovers, gay love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. There, he meets a beautiful but ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
drug addict, drug rehab, drug addiction, teenager, male nudity, drug, father son relationship, coming of age, rehabilitation, intervention, love, friendship ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
ANIMALS tells the story of Jude and Bobbie: a young couple that exist somewhere between homelessness and the fantasy of their imaginations. Though they masterfully con and steal in an attempt to stay one step ahead of their addiction, they are ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, realistic, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
drug addiction, addiction, street life, homelessness, desperation, relationships, drug addict, moral ambiguity, survival, young couple, intimate, urban ...
Place:
illinois
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young musician takes a beautiful tattoo artist on a ride in a stolen classic car.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, tense
Plot:
on the road, drug addict, addiction, junkie, artist, musician, stealing a car, jealousy, love and romance, couples, self discovery, stoned ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, independent film ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, drug addiction, photography, addiction, photographer, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, lgbtq, sexuality, lesbian love, drug ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug, alcoholism, recovery, drug abuse, drug addict, cautionary tale, substance abuse, couples, life is a bitch, drug dealing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
los angeles, usa, mexico, california, new york
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and ...
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, sexy, depressing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
drug abuse, heroin, addiction, junkie, love story, destructive relationship, obsession, life is a bitch, drug, drug addict, mentor, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia, melbourne, new zealand
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
When three women get cheated on by their husbands they decide to get even and open up The Mistress Club, where seduction is the name of the game and forbidden sex is the natural outcome.
Style:
erotic, sexy
Plot:
sensuality, erotica, sexual attraction, adulteress, erotic fantasy, sex, voyeurism, revenge, adultery, passion, seduction, infidelity ...
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.
Style:
tripping
Plot:
loneliness, housewife, hairdresser, infidelity, suburbs, explorer, extramarital affair, sociology, swimming pool, society, marital problem, sociologist ...
Time:
60s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Style:
romantic, touching, inspirational, erotic, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love, lesbian, sex scene, adultery, female nudity, female pubic hair, woman on top, sex on first date, divorce, american football, bare butt ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
oregon, portland oregon, usa, california, san francisco
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
hotel room, extramarital affair, impossible love, hotel, adultery, coitus, infidelity, cheating wife, female nudity, nude girl, female pubic hair, secret relationship ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Golden-haired college soccer player William Katt falls hard for campus beauty Susan Dey, despite the fact that she's the mistress of an older, married attorney.
Style:
realistic, serious, sexual, touching, sexy
Plot:
love, first love, bare breasts, lust, male nudity, love triangle, mistress, college, soccer, lawyer, nudity, couples ...
Time:
50s
Place:
oregon, portland oregon
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Pamela is a young actress who has moved into New York City from the midwest. She meets up with Carl who is middle-aged tailor of women's clothings and is going through a "mid-life crisis". He sees his son's amourous escapades and ...
Plot:
steamy romance, threesome, woman seduces a man, holiday, christmas eve, menage a trois, unfaithful husband, bare breasts, female nudity, femme fatale, christmas, sexually liberated ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Despite their differences, Celeste and Sihem quickly become inseparable. The common will to get out of drugs seals their fusional friendship. This will be as much a force as an obstacle when, transferred from the center that welcomes them, they find ...
Plot:
friendship, addiction, male nudity, massage, bare breasts, drug, female nudity, train station, drug addiction, hospital, drug addict, rehabilitation ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
19%
799
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
At his bachelor party, Jason has a one-night fling with Nikki, a radiant beauty with whom he forms an immediate bond. They agree to keep their secret locked away forever. Two years later, Jason, his wife, Andy and his fiancee plan a reunion weekend. ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Plot:
adultery, threesome, cheating wife, one night stand, infidelity, dysfunctional marriage, unfaithful wife, lovers reunited, female nudity, public sex, cheating fiancee, extramarital affair ...
Similarity:
19%
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763
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Twentysomething innocents Jacqui and Martijn move to Amsterdam and immerse themselves in the intense and drug-laden underground club scene. Life turns out to be far more complicated, difficult, and dangerous than they bargained for. Their ...
Style:
intense, moody
Plot:
rave, addiction, nightlife, young adult, drug trade, drug overdose, ecstasy, urban, peer pressure, realism, frustration, counterculture ...
Time:
90s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Style:
sexy, romantic drama, sensual, romantic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, summer vacation, hippie, infidelity, cheating wife, love affair, erotica, bittersweet, skinny dipping, lust, sexual attraction, extramarital affair ...
Time:
60s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1969
Place:
new york, usa, woodstock, new york state, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her ...
Style:
erotic, independent film, erotic drama
Plot:
wife swapping, sex club, gigolo, orgy, group sex, disco, older woman younger man, nymphomaniac, sex scene, erotica, cuckolded husband, swinger couple ...
Time:
year 1978
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Style:
depressing, sexual, disturbing, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, loneliness, casino, alcoholism, prostitute, alcohol abuse, prostitution, depression, self destructing, tragedy, alcoholic, medical ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, nevada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug use, drug, heroin addict, drug addict, heroin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of pet, life philosophy, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, crying, retro, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
female nudity, infidelity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, looking for sex, extramarital affair, coming of age, promiscuous daughter, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, nudity, domestic abuse ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
18%
26K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
London is a drug laden adventure that centers on a party in a New York loft where a young man is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend.
Style:
psychological, sexual, romantic, intense, serious ...
Plot:
love, couple relations, nudity, drug, hopes, lifestyle, introspection, marijuana, addiction, dysfunctional relationship, woman urinating, cocaine ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, london
Similarity:
18%
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