Movies like Close Enough 2016

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Close Enough (2016)
Close Enough (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 62 min.
Story: After moving away and being out of touch for two years since high school graduation, three girls who were once best friends, reunite over a weekend to discover what made them drift apart and just how much they've changed since they last saw each other.
Style: independent film
Plot: beach, female protagonist, friend, weekend, reunion

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Most similar movies to Close Enough

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and independent film films with plots about friend, beach, female protagonist, reunion, friendship, female nudity and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Close Enough: Low Fidelity (2011), Throatful of Strawberries (1985), The Sacred Family (2005), A Woman, a Part (2016), Sons and Daughters (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Low Fidelity (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A dramedy about relationships and fidelity, or the lack thereof. A group of old high school friends, now in their late thirties, get together for the weekend to celebrate the 4th of July, for better or for worse.
Style: independent film, exciting, captivating, serious
Plot: holiday, weekend, house, friendship, friends, relationships, friend, childhood friend, infidelity, old friend, couple relations, high school friend ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Throatful of Strawberries (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.
Plot: drinking, drunkenness, restaurant, friendship, friend, game playing, success, middle aged man, memory, reunion, barge, band ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
The Sacred Family (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 99 min.
Story: It's Easter in the beach house of a Chilean well-to-do and nowadays family. A self-centered and successful father, a disoriented mother and a son overshadowed by his successful father. The three of them, wait for the arrival of the son's ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sexual
Plot: couples, youth, parents and children, estrangement, homecoming, easter, gay, sex, sexuality, love and romance, gender, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
A Woman, a Part (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself.
Plot: woman, mental illness, friend, mentally unstable, exhaustion, party, swimming pool, grudge, nervous breakdown, one night stand, agent, actress ...
Place: los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Sons and Daughters (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: We are in Argentina in 1977, a woman gives birth to twins. With the complicity of the midwife he manages to hide the child, second child. The first, a boy, is taken into custody by the regime's guards. The scene moves to the Milan of today. The ...
Plot: adoption, twins, coup, hotel room, soldier, train, beach, flashback, internet, ship, fishing, parachute ...
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 3.9
 105
Pool (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 24 year old Johan spends his days in Nice on the French Riviera, supported by an aging ex-actress. Days go by between her house, the beaches and the apartment of his friend Kurt. A life in leisure and luxury. But memories of his teenage years are ...
Style: thought provoking, dramatic, melancholic, captivating
Plot: gigolo, older woman younger man sex, friend, friends, male female relationship, beach, actress, couple relations, relationships, lifestyle, couples, bare breasts
Place: french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.5
 891
Creatura (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After moving in with her boyfriend, Mila becomes aware of her loss of desire.
Style: non-linear
Plot: female pubic hair, female exhibitionist, dancing, female protagonist, past, house, friend, nightclub, sex scene, woman, father daughter relationship, flashback ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
A Country Called Home (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her ...
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: death of father, alcoholic father, road trip, friendship, lifestyle, travel, changing lives, father daughter estrangement, female protagonist, lgbt, family reunited, reunion ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 6.5
 157
The Fishbowl (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As her cancer spreads, Noelia's ultimate decision is to return to her native Vieques, Puerto Rico, and claim her freedom to decide her own fate. She reunites with her friends and family, who are still dealing with the contamination of the U.S. ...
Style: serious, dramatic, disturbing, captivating, realistic
Plot: cancer, illness, friend, colonization, mourning, family relations, homecoming, woman, friends, female protagonist, friendship, comeback ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Daughter of Rage (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nicaragua, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Nicaragua, today. Eleven-year-old María lives with her mother Lilibeth on the edge of an immense rubbish dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local gang member. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth has to move to ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: search for mother, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, 11 year old girl, mother child separation, forceful separation, life is a bitch, bereavement, separation, dog, beach, mother ...
Place: nicaragua
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Strings of Passion (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Strings Of Passion is an urban commercial flick which tells the story of three men, Neel, Aman and Amit. They are young and dynamic guys who run the band "Strings of Passion" but are shadowed by the influence of drugs, broken love and bad ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friend, college, male rape
Place: mumbai india, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.1
 259
Ama (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A portrait of the myth of maternity around the story of Pepa and her daughter, who are evicted from their home and forced to wander for a place to live with no support network.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot: female protagonist, homeless woman, homelessness, motherhood, social problems, slice of life, mother child relationship, parenthood, life is a bitch, homeless, little girl, hotel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Time of the Hunt (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Richard's wife forces him to bring along his young son, Michel. For these men, hunting represents ...
Plot: hunting, storytelling, drinking, father son relationship, waitress, motel, redhead, violence, drunkenness, weekend, hunter, moose ...
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Beautiful Women (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: "Schöne Frauen“ handelt genau davon: von schönen Frauen. Fünf Schauspielerinnen finden sich nacheinander zum Casting für einen Fernsehfilm ein. Sie schweigen, taxieren sich, begutachten sich und ihre Gegenüber. Und kommen sich mitnichten ...
Plot: lgbt, child star, lesbian sex, audition, lesbian, road trip, drunkenness, singer, drinking, lesbian interest, lesbianism, women's issues ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Chloe, A to Z (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: When 22-year-old Chloe is left with an unexpected pregnancy after a sexy date, she must face her secret past to move into an uncertain future. Torn between her choices, her friends influence her difficult decision: abortion or adoption.
Style: mumblecore, independent film
Plot: past, secret, friend, restaurant, adoption, cell phone, beach, waitress, painting, gift, abrupt ending, counselor ...
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Waiting for the Light to Change (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Over the course of a week-long beachside getaway, Amy, having recently undergone dramatic weight loss, finds herself wrestling between loyalty to her best friend Kim and her attraction to Kim's new boyfriend.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: love interest, love triangle, girlfriend, male female relationship, love affair, love and romance, romantic triangle, couple relations, relationship problems, love story, female protagonist, girlfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.2
 220
Ten Empty (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: family secret, family relations, secret, schizophrenia, father son relationship, bipolar disorder, family feud, father son reunion, dysfunctional family, youth, getting home, frustration ...
Place: south australia, australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.9
 139
The Gentiles (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Ana throws her life on the Instagram and other social networks, where she posts pictures, videos and short animations, together with witty (and lucid) texts. Ana is going through a strange moment. In addition to going through the family conflicts ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Audience: teen drama
Plot: suicide, teenage love, star crossed lovers, relationship problems, teenager, teenage life, couple relations, in love, female protagonist, suicide attempt, life is a bitch, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 6.8
 107
Aurora (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After she read in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.
Style: suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
Plot: abortion, foster child, judge, newborn baby, burial, dead child, doctor, baby, female protagonist, junkyard, seaside, bird ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Last Snows of Spring (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A 10-year-old boy starts to die of neglect when his widowed father spends too much time forsaking his parental duties in favour of playboy activities and a jet-set life-style.
Plot: coming of age, leukemia, youth, lawyer, crisis, father son relationship, fear, friend, workaholic, beach, adolescent boy, travel ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.6
 908
A Trip (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Style: emotional, realistic, road movie, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, love triangle, on the road, journey, coming of age, youth, lgbt, lesbian, nomad, picnic, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Beginning at Fifteen (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A story of the sexual adventures of three fifteen year old girls: Elisa, Marian and Susi.
Style: erotic
Plot: teenage prostitution, porn, prostitution, teenage girl, woman, family relations, friend, nudity, female pubic hair, sex scene, female nudity, cigarette smoking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.0
 374
I Am a Soldier (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A social drama about a woman who is obligated to return to her parents’ home and agrees to work for her uncle in a doghouse.
Style: independent film
Plot: bare breasts, nudity, female nudity, female protagonist, hospital, job interview, beach, male nudity, singing, birthday, police, dog attack ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Looking for Her (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
Style: suspense, touching, suspenseful
Plot: racism, adoption, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, pregnancy, female protagonist, mother daughter reunion, pregnant woman, abortion, mother son relationship, dog, laptop ...
Time: year 2015
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, friend, best friend, life is a bitch, memories, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, women, female protagonist, childhood memory, occupation, life ...
Time: 1930s
Place: netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 199
Water Child (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A 12-year-old girl finds herself stranded on a lonely Caribbean island with a 20-year old retarded man in this sensitively rendered Canadian drama from Quebec. Emile and Cedrine are first seen during their rescue in which both are nearly in a coma. ...
Plot: flashback, husband wife relationship, beach, friendship, girl, mother daughter relationship, friend, hospital, adoptive father adopted son relationship, male female relationship, twenty something, caribbean sea ...
Place: caribbean, bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 654
Kings (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot: friends, introspection, friendship, society, alcohol abuse, buddies, dealing with death, friend, drunkenness, death, migration, conquering ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.7
 57
Kambyo (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Great story and a really touching one. It talks about a group of 4 friends going on a road trip, in search for goals and inner-self To "Macky" he's going because he's searching for his long lost best friend from college, whom he ...
Plot: gays and lesbians, friend, group, rural setting, closeted homosexual, surf, ocean, aids, on the road, marijuana, highway, dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Camila Comes Out Tonight (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When her grandmother becomes seriously ill, Camila is forced to move to Buenos Aires, leaving behind a liberal public high school for a scholastic, traditional private institution. Suddenly a senior without any friends, and with her single mother ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, lifestyle change, grownups, changing lives, family relations, relationships, family problems, latinx lgbt, singing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.8
 375
The Rachels (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a popular teen falls to her death, her best friend basks in the glow of the social media attention, while their rival seeks to avenge the past and uncover the truth behind the mysterious death.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, exciting
Audience: teens
Plot: death of best friend, psychopath, social media, high school, fame, female protagonist, ambition, teenage life, popularity, secret, murder investigation, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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