Movies like Just Like a Woman

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Just Like a Woman (2012)
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Just Like a Woman (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing, sex comedy, touching, realistic, independent film, interesting
Plot: belly dancing, dancing, friendship, self discovery, starting over, lifestyle, hopes, on the road, society, unfulfillment, secret, escapades, choice, road trip, partner, medicine, murder, justice, misery, highway, marriage, receptionist, fugitive, immigrant, friends ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: chicago, usa
Keyword: marketplace

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Most similar movies to Just Like a Woman

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about society, hopes, friends, friendship, starting over, family relations and immigrant mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Just Like a Woman: Under the Starry Sky (2013), Not Waving But Drowning (2012), Hide Away (2011), How I Got Lost (2009), To Life (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bab'Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Hungary, France, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two ...
Style: serious, touching, atmospheric, road movie, sentimental ...
Plot: spirituality, human spirit, desert, religions or cults, self discovery, mysterious place, on the road, storytelling, grandfather, granddaughter, poetry, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, tunisia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.7
 1K
Hide Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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How I Got Lost (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: HOW I GOT LOST is the heartbreaking yet hopeful story of Andrew and Jake, two friends dealing with loss amidst events bigger than them. Andrew is the friend we all have, the one who convinces you to come along despite your better judgment. Talented ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative
Plot: self discovery, friendship, hopes, parents and children, buddies, introspection, best friend, on the road, estrangement, starting over, nothing to lose, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia, new york, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
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To Life (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, auschwitz, human spirit, hopes, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, reunited friends, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.6
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Fraulein (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops ...
Style: emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, self discovery, longing, friends, immigrant, society, job seeking, secret, female nudity, sex scene, cafeteria, integration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, serbia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
 3K
Boutique (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, downfall, life is a bitch, couples, bittersweet, iranian, singleness, youth, social differences, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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World Traveler (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous ...
Plot: midlife crisis, self discovery, obsessive quest, introspection, starting over, society, human nature, love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, family life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Deep in the Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, captivating ...
Plot: starting over, support group, hopes, alcohol abuse, mysterious stranger, college, rise to the top, society, friendship, lifestyle change, changing lives, alcoholic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.4
 52
Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tony Luke, Jr. stars as Joey Nardone, an out-of-shape boxer, who after 8 years in prison for an unfortunate accident leaves prison and gets a shot at redemption by fighting for one young boy's future - 14 year old Jesus.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot: teenage life, redemption, friendship, hopes, starting over, youth, rivalry, coming of age, profanity, boxing, violent content, friends ...
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.5
 634
Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Mother of George (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, couple relations, society, couples, lifestyle, afrofuturism, african, trying to get pregnant, family relations, female protagonist, parents and children, cultural difference ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Back to School Mom (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: college, redemption, family relations, life is a bitch, college life, homecoming, social relations, starting over, bittersweet, small town, college friend, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.7
 328
Ricochet River (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, culture clash, interracial relations, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, small town, on the road, youth, lifestyle, society, social misfits ...
Time: 60s, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.9
 6K
Princesses (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in Spain, the story is about friendship and love in the world of prostitution.
Style: serious, disturbing, sincere, erotic, captivating ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, friendship, lifestyle, self discovery, society, social differences, women, hopes, loneliness, migration, girl ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Personal Belongings (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot: love affair, impossible love, immigrant, couples, introspection, fall in love, hopes, society, couple relations, love and romance, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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How She Move (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, follow your dream, contests and competitions, teenage life, friendship, black people, ambition, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Two Men in Town (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Algeria, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: sheriff, haunted by the past, starting over, going straight, small town, friendship, society, redemption, parole, convict, arrest, mexican american border ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Hope (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, LĂ©onard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot: survival, on the road, fall in love, rescue, starting over, hopes, love and romance, danger, immigrant, desert, follow your dream, chance meeting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.8
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Northless (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: immigrant, follow your dream, friendship, human spirit, social decay, society, hopes, bittersweet, u.s. mexico border, migration, border, exile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Crossroads (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: introspection, clergy, religions or cults, idealism, hopes, society, fall in love, self discovery, priest, friendship, love, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
We All Want What's Best for Her (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, starting over, estrangement, introspection, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, accident, escape, society, friends ...
Time: 21st century
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, high school, teenager, asthma, adolescence, against the odds, lifestyle, musician's life, working class, life is a bitch, hopes, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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24%
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Atlantic. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot: starting over, human spirit, hopes, family life, danger, escapades, ocean, survival, sea, nature, climbing, rock climbing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Trigger (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Style: captivating, realistic, contemplative, psychological, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, friends, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, music band, lgbt, couples, lgbtq, party, society, musician's life, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Flying Lessons (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, inspirational
Plot: small town life, parents and children, memory loss, hopes, self discovery, friends, haunted by the past, sexual content, homecoming, small town, family relations, flying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.7
 3K
The Citizen (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: american dream, starting over, immigrant, society, hopes, 9/11, rivalry, arab, legal, lawyer, urban, city ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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