Movies like Sea Shadow

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Sea Shadow (2011)
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Sea Shadow (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mansoor, a 16 year-old teenager, living in a coastal "freej" (an Emirati neighborhood), has strong feelings for 16 year-old girl Kaltham. But culture and tradition, as well as family hardship, make it difficult for him to express his feelings. A conversation with his "know-it-all" friend convinces him that a gift is the best way to express love, and so, he begins to look for ways to save money for the gift without arousing the suspicion of his family and friends.
Plot: boy, lgbt teen, teenager, sea, musician, first love, mother, beach, father, teenage girl, family relations, arab, journey, fear, choice, pain, teenage boy, brother, suburbs, gift, sister, friend, little boy, bug
Keyword: arabic

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, touching, captivating and realistic films with plots about teenager, teenage boy, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, youth and boy mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Sea Shadow: JJ+E (2021), Summer Games (2011), The High Wall (1964), Ancika (2024), That Night (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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One Hundred Days After Childhood (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of Russian teenagers spend their summer at a summer camp. Mitia falls in love and gets so occupied with his own problems that he forgets about everything else.
Style: existential
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: first love, summer, summer camp, boy, love triangle, fall in love, frustration, rehearsal, fight, coming of age, teen romance, camp ...
Place: soviet union, russia
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JJ+E (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Elisabeth and John-John live in the same city, but they inhabit different worlds.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, sincere, teen
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, love, first love, long distance relationship, school, nordic, love story, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, in love, relationships ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Summer Games (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, love and romance, family problems, family relations, resort, parents and children, father son relationship, fight, teenage girl, husband wife relationship, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The High Wall (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper ...
Plot: sisters, sister, girl, female protagonist, friendship, teenage girl, hospital, teenager, friend, 13 year old, girl man relationship, garden ...
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Ancika (2024)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Friendship between Dilan and Ancika Mehrunisa Rabu. Their increasingly close relationship made the seeds of love grow and their relationship rose to the level of being a couple.
Audience: teen drama
Plot: heart, adaptation, life, friend, high school, young girl, student, boy, school, female protagonist, teenager, teen romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
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That Night (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: teenage pregnancy, coming of age, bowling, summer, bullying, teenager, pain, rock and roll, teenage girl, father, love, self discovery ...
Time: year 1961, year 1992, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york
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Soulmate (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A movie about two friends who first met at the age of 13, looking back on the nature of their relationship through 14 years of meeting and separation, friendship and love, yearning and jealousy.
Style: dramatic, melancholic, thought provoking, enigmatic
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A determined teenage boy struggles to find acceptance within the Jr. Lifeguards of Hermosa Beach while juggling relationships and challenges in the summer of 1986.
Style: entertaining, feel good, captivating, light, teen ...
Plot: lifeguard, surfing, coming of age, sea, teenage boy, summer, best friend, first love, teenage girl, friendship between boys, co worker co worker relationship, teamwork ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: california
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 7.4
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Heartstone (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, social, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
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Time: 2000s
Place: iceland
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 7.2
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The Mutants (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The Mutants (Portuguese: Os mutantes) is a 1998 Portuguese film by director Teresa Villaverde, starring Ana Moreira and Alexandre Pinto. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Style: bleak
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Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Painkillers (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Casper (Gijs Blom) has never met his father and lives alone with his mother Marit (Birgit Schuurman). He likes to spend his free time playing the piano, so he is thrilled when he is chosen to become a pianist in a youth orchestra – and especially ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage love, family relations, parents and children, absent father, single parent, coming of age, youth, teenage life, friendship, love and romance, terminal illness, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe, prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Close Friends (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
Style: erotic
Plot: father, incest, forced incest, love triangle, exploitation, jealousy, teenage boy, love, friendship, husband wife relationship, lesbian, friend ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 14-year old Em likes to hang around in her old play house. One day a boy, Jakob, sets fire to it, and Em catches a brief glimpse of him before he disappears. They meet again a few days later. For the first time in her life, Em falls in love. Plot by ...
Style: teen, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: european, first love, teenager, family relations, parents and children, teenage love, teenage life, society, love and romance, coming of age, innocence lost, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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More Time (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Zimbabwe
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Thandi finds out the complexities of love, when David, the schoolboy Mister Charming, coolly sweeps her off her feet.
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This Special Friendship (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt teen, gay teenager, friendship, teenage life, youth, boys love, boarding school, lgbt, gay love, teenage boy, school, child ...
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Story: Veronica is a high school student studying to be a glazier, although she dreams of being a theatre actress. The only thing that she finds joy in at school is the company of her friend, Klemen and writing the script for a theatre play in her spare ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, teenage boy, teenage girl, teenager, part time job, teacher student relationship, factory
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Duration: 108 min.
Story: Link and his brother flee their abusive father and embark on a journey where Link discovers his sexuality and rediscovers his Mi’kmaw heritage.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Six Days of June (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man finds a way to spend his last few days of freedom before joining the army. Set in eastern Bosnia in summer of 1968.
Plot: soccer, army, picnic, fight, summer, pain, tragic event, river, fall in love, friend, girl, beach ...
Time: 60s
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia
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53%
My First Summer (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 16-year-old Claudia has grown up in isolation from the outside world. Stranded on a remote property after her mother's death, she is shocked when Grace, a spirited local teen, appears in the garden like a mirage, a breath of fresh, sugary air. ...
Style: romantic, light, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian teen, teenage sexuality, lesbianism, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, lesbian love, teenage girl, gays and lesbians, social isolation, friendship, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Story: Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, lgbt cinema, romantic ...
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Time: 2000s, 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, idaho, europe, flanders
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Story: A teenage summer in a small town in the desert, a dysfunctional family, a rock band, a can full of glue, two boys, one girl, loads of tongue kisses, dry heat, wind in Patagonia, existential angst... A teenage story in the middle of nowhere.
Style: touching, realistic, melancholic, psychological, teen ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, coming of age, youth, desert, best friend, family relations, lgbt, experimenting, lifestyle, puberty, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Place: argentina, latin america, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
First Love, Last Rites (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Joey and Sissel are two misfits spending most of their time together talking or having sex. Gradually and slowly their relationships are becoming boring for them.
Style: erotic, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: sex, porn, misfit, family relations, estrangement, family problems, couples, love and romance, youth, parents and children, dysfunctional family, suburbs ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Good Son (2001)
Genre: Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
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Duration: 87 min.
Story: A teen-age girl and her father come to an island on Hawaii, they find a closer relationship to each other and think about changing the island. During her adventures, Sydney finds friends, a new hobby with her fantastic photography, and the truth ...
Style: colorful, captivating, inspirational, teen
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
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Time: future, 90s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do ...
Plot: coming of age, love, older woman younger man relationship, swing, love letter, milf, first love, italian neorealism, relationships, class differences, teenage crush, jazz singer ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
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Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
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