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Wuthering High (2015)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An updated 21st century version of the Emily Bronte novel set in modern day Malibu, California where the wealthy Earnshaw family adopts Heath, a troubled teenager. The Earnshaws teenage daughter, Cathy, falls madly in love with him, embittering her rich boyfriend, Eddie, and the rest of their exclusive, upscale community. Wrapped up in her exciting fling, Cathy is blind to the dangerous side of Heath until it's too late.
Style:
tragic ending, suspenseful
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teen romance, forbidden love, love triangle, jealousy, teen angst, toxic relationship, seduction, revenge, obsession, betrayal, tragedy, manipulation, danger, female protagonist, secrets, family drama, wealthy family, coming of age, teenage love, adoption, isolation, private school, grief, drug addict, violence ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
malibu california
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Most similar movies to Wuthering High
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating and suspense films with plots about coming of age, betrayal, psychological drama, revenge, obsession, female protagonist and manipulation mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Wuthering High: The Prince (2015), The Rachels (2017), Swedish Love Play (1968), Sadie (2018), V.C. Andrews' Dawn (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Wealthy Manhattan kids dealing with high school and the drama that comes with it.
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, friendship, coming of age, teen angst, gossip, social status, peer pressure, urban, jealousy, scandal, luxury, personal growth ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
manhattan new york city
Similarity:
95%
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:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, social media, popularity, revenge, investigation, death of best friend, psychopath, fame, teenage life, private investigation, murder investigation, ambition ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Kristin (Danica McKellar), daughter of upper middle class parents, can hardly stand the immense pressure to fulfill her mother's (Dee Wallace Stone) dream of success in sports and high school. In this tense situation she gets emotional support ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
exploitation, deception, female protagonist, secrets, mother daughter conflict, emotional manipulation, domestic drama, manipulation, victimization, pregnant teenager, betrayal, high school ...
Time:
90s
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Carmilla falls for her stepfather and seduces him. When he is killed in a car accident, she decides to take revenge against the driver, but this only leads to a deeper tragedy.
Style:
erotic drama, intense, dark, art house, period piece
Plot:
revenge, stepfather, seduction, car accident, tragedy, forbidden love, female protagonist, obsession, jealousy, love triangle, moral ambiguity, sexual awakening ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
74%
506
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in the newest resident at the Shady Plains Trailer Park.
Style:
independent film, tense, emotional, realistic, dark ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, coming of age, trailer park, female protagonist, child protagonist, character study, family drama, moral ambiguity, jealousy, manipulation, sabotage, absent father ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the dark and twisted history of Dawn Longchamp and her family, along with Cutler and Booth families.
Style:
suspenseful, family saga, psychological, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
adult, teen drama
Plot:
domestic drama, secrets, relationships, relatives, family relations, family problems, sibling relationship, parents and children, female protagonist, family drama, family life, manipulation ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Jimmy kills himself.
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, bleak, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teen suicide, high school, grief, depression, mental health, mourning, loss, teen angst, coming of age, family conflict, trauma, character study ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
Style:
bleak, poignant, tragic ending
Plot:
grief, loss, mourning, tragedy, guilt, rage, aging, family conflict, bittersweet, refugee, memory, nostalgia ...
Place:
armenia
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A wife leaves her husband to work abroad. But when her husband meets an enigmatic woman who seduces her every time their marriage is put to the test.
Style:
sexy
Plot:
extramarital affair, infidelity, betrayal, seduction, domestic drama, temptation, sexual tension, jealousy, guilt, female protagonist, manipulation, intimacy ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Once the most popular girl at Short Beach High, Denise Dixon finds her life turned upside-down after one night of terror. Rumours and violent backstabbing run rife. Life in Short Beach will never be the same.
Style:
suspenseful
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, bullying, school, gossip, reputation, female rivalry, peer pressure, popularity, isolation, scandal, teen angst, mistrust ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sophia is the perfect 17-year-old girl. She studies hard, stays out of trouble, and is a promising pianist. The only problem is that she’s always been quiet and keeps to herself, so when she strikes up a friendship with Grace, the new girl in ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological thriller, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female protagonist, stalker, school, female friendship, girlfriend, problem, relationship problems, teenage life, schoolgirl, secret, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, manipulation ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the ...
Style:
tragic ending, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, jealousy, manipulation, gender roles, betrayal, love triangle, literary, power struggle, obsession, social satire, moral ambiguity, small town ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When money, affairs, power and lies collide, Nicole Wright, a beautiful and successful music CEOs life is about to crumble in front of her. While leaving her husband and son, the lies that have built her music empire is threatening to tear her down. ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
music industry, deception, infidelity, cheating wife, affair, lie, betrayal, secrets, lifestyle change, problem, social problems, changing lives ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Gabriella, a courageous and tough New York teenager. She witnesses the killing of her father, a beloved teacher at her high school, who tries to help a student being bullied. Trying to recover from their grief, Gabriella and her mother move to ...
Style:
realistic, intense, emotional, suspense
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
bullying, high school, courage, coming of age, young adult, grief, survival, new school, peer pressure, resilience, justice, teen angst ...
Similarity:
53%
110
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Etta Berter is a doctor's wife in 1905 who has been unable to have children. The couple has one adopted daughter but she has always wanted more children. Julie Harris's character is the family's cook and close companion to their ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
family secret, jealousy, secrets, motherhood, class differences, female rivalry, domestic drama, love triangle, emotional manipulation, social class, infidelity, adoption ...
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
TV show
Story:
Ateş, a man haunted by childhood scars and consumed by rage, returns to destroy the family that shattered his life years ago. His weapon is not a sword, but a marriage: 187 days with Mercan, the daughter of his enemy. Mercan, already promised to ...
Style:
romantic drama, suspenseful
Plot:
betrayal, manipulation, family feud, obsession, passion, forbidden love, jealousy, anti hero, revenge, family drama, female protagonist, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
49%
319
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship -- a catastrophe that will shape all their lives. But as adults, some 15 years later, they come together again for a reunion that will open ...
Style:
emotional, intense, tense, realistic, psychological
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, black, car crash, friendship, trauma, tragedy, secrets, regret, grief, healing, reconciliation, redemption ...
Similarity:
48%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
One year after the tragic death of his best friend, an eighteen-year-old machinist struggles with the split of his parents and the violent way of life surrounding him.
Style:
emotional, tension, intense, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, grief, teenager, trauma, loss, mourning, family drama, family conflict, young adult, confrontation, friendship, anger ...
Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A journey through the memories of teenager Paul Varderman as he reflects on the events leading to the fatal moment his life is cut short. Paul moves to a new school and becomes involved with 'The Freaks', a group on the periphery of school ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, gang, teenage life, youth, high school life, downfall, kids in trouble, bullying, teen angst, tragedy, coming of age, outsider ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, single mother, lesbian, existential loneliness, intimacy, secrets, caretaker, young woman, moral ambiguity, trauma, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A divorcee is surprised to learn her ex-husband has suddenly remarried a much younger woman; and even more surprised to discover her dark and treacherous past.
Style:
captivating, psychological thriller, suspenseful, intense, twist ending ...
Plot:
dark past, relationships, ex wife, woman, ex husband ex wife relationship, ex couple relations, mysterious past, secret past, family relations, couple relations, couples, ex husband ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A young woman's birthright hides a dark secret.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, independent film, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, secret, dark secret, secrets, seduction, seductress, lifestyle, life philosophy, identity, family secret, revelation, identity crisis ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Bangladesh, USA, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Hassan and Mario are neighbors. They have raised their daughters, Dina and Isabella together, supporting each other through tough times. When Hassan, faces the challenges of modern life, both inside and outside the home, his reactions propel a ...
Style:
tense, multicultural
Plot:
family drama, domestic violence, coming of age, father daughter relationship, moral dilemma, protective father, family honor, tragedy, teen romance, forbidden love, identity crisis, gay slur ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two teenage outsiders are demoralized daily at school, until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school shooting, police, boy, friendship between boys, tragedy, best friend, revenge, school, teenage boy, junior high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
amputee, painting, desire, jealousy, love triangle, romantic triangle, obsession, seduction, danger, character study, moral ambiguity, adultery ...
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A student grieving the loss of her parents joins an extracurricular club and becomes entangled in a romance with a classmate who has secrets.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic drama, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
secrets, teen romance, problem, love story, relationships, male female relationship, undercover, love interest, relationship problems, couples, secret, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
43%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between ...
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, melancholic, atmospheric, period drama ...
Plot:
geisha, jealousy, mother and daughter, forbidden love, tragedy, yakuza, prostitution, identity, family feud, female rivalry, patriarchy, pimp ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1933, 1910s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Gabino, a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, unrequited love, teenage life, love and romance, youth, sexual harassment, high school, relationship problems, tragic love, neglect, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Caught Between the Two A very successful black woman named Taliyah finds out that she is in control of everything in her life except one thing. Just when Taliyah thinks her life is in the perfect place she happens to get an unexpected surprise that ...
Style:
romantic drama, independent film, amateur film
Plot:
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