Movies like Only the Brave 1994
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Only the Brave (1994)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes advantage of this by trying to seduce her drippy school teacher. Alex watches as Vicki, unable to escape her terrible homelife and an psychological wreck, sets alight to herself and burns to death.
Style:
sad, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, crying, independent film
Plot:
lgbt, coming of age, erotica, friendship, sexual abuse, youth, misfit, teachers and students, love and romance, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, self discovery, society, social misfits, gender, drug abuse, mentally unstable, sex, teenager, lesbian, dancing, rape, fight, biker, train ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, melbourne
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and crying films with plots about love and romance, kiss, coming of age, youth, friendship, sex and gay mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Only the Brave: Head On (1998), Somersault (2004), Love in Thoughts (2004), Full Speed (1996), Flirting (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style:
independent film, terrifying, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, gay slur, sex, lgbt, sexual attraction, horniness, gay bar, nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, masturbation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, melbourne, oceania, tokyo
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a ...
Style:
sexy, touching, emotional, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, self discovery, teenage life, love and romance, dysfunctional relationship, sexual awakening, runaway, youth, menage a trois, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
australia, new south wales, california, new zealand
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
Style:
disturbing, stylized, serious, sexual, rough ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, youth, betrayal, bohemian life, lgbtq, unrequited love, poet, lgbt, lifestyle, celebration ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one, pre world war two
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay club, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, unrequited love, gay slur, glbt, best friend, betrayal, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
lyon, france, europe, algeria, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic ...
Style:
realistic, touching, teen, romantic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
boarding school, coming of age, friendship, interracial relations, love, high school, bullying, male pubic hair, white male black female relationship, teenage life, teenage love, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, year 1965, 60s, 70s
Place:
australia, paris france, africa, kenya, uganda
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, politics, boys' school, pleasure, male prostitution, closeted homosexual, lgbtq, schoolboy, glbt, manipulation, gay subtext ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, antarctica
Similarity:
41%
207
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Nadia (Béatrice Dalle) is in her 30s and begins a serious relationship with a teen named Pierre (Isaïe Sultan).
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, sexual tension, self discovery, teenage love, life is a bitch, youth, love and romance, addiction, adolescence vs adulthood, alcohol abuse, gay, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renee leads a fulfilling life as a professor of theater, mother of two girls, and wife to a kind and successful husband. Her life of contentment is changed forever when she discovers an undeniable attraction between herself and a female graduate ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, sincere, independent film
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, sexual content, campus, lesbian bar, family relations, infidelity, college, love and romance, forbidden love, teachers and students, life turned upside down, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, lesbian love, sapphic, high school life, lesbian sex, lesbian romance, youth, lesbian relationship, loss of virginity, lesbian couple, lesbian teen ...
Time:
90s, year 1989, year 1993
Similarity:
38%
1K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. While on the road, the girls meet up with Pete, a drifter working as a grounds keeper on a derelict army ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, independent film, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, sexual, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, coming of age, lesbian teen, teenage life, sex, gays and lesbians, women, summer, seduction ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004
Place:
england, northern england, yorkshire, california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves ...
Style:
cult classic, realistic, touching, emotional, retro ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, suicide, coming of age, grief, teenager, loss, drinking, friendship, death, runaway, mental illness, education ...
Time:
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Place:
oregon, portland oregon, california, new jersey
Similarity:
35%
2K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Alex glides his mouse tenderly over online images of Vika. He has been smitten ever since he saw her with her friends and cannot get her out of his head. Now he has found Vika’s profile online and has learned a lot about her. Vika has no idea ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
35%
10K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
Style:
teen, touching, realistic, sincere, spectacular ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teacher, feminism, teenage girl, girl gang, high school, lesbian, attempted rape, sexual harassment, abusive father, rebellion, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
809
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
male nudity, gay, unrequited love, gay anal sex, prostitute, lgbt, nightlife, love triangle, lifestyle, self discovery, couples, looking for love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, haunted by the past, mysterious character, hopes, youth, small town, rescue, death of father, accidental death, psychiatrist, drowning, lost love ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Coming-of age feature, set in a New South Wales country town in the 1960s, about a 15 year-old boy. It follows his loves and how he copes with life's problems such as death and departure.
Style:
sad, independent film, period piece, sex comedy, retro ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, small town, first love, relationships, friendship, pregnant teenager, love triangle, forbidden love, love, discrimination, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s, year 1987, 20th century, year 1962, 80s
Place:
australia, new south wales
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
As a common birthday approaches, five very different people are faced with very similar problems. Jim, a gay, overweight telemarketer (for a weight loss program) faces his self esteem issues. Ron, is a minister who preaches about conversion but ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, introspection, looking for love, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, love and romance, friendship, sexual relations, deportation, lgbt, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, texas, taipei, pakistan, taiwan ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When Laura and Christine meet Maria, their friendship takes an intense turn to vulnerability, love and sex.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage girl, lesbian, best friend, friendship, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, loss of innocence, jealousy, life turned upside down, mysterious character, betrayal, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend, Clifton—who has always harbored a secret crush on her—he does his best to get in the way.
Style:
teen, disturbing, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, best friend, teenage sexuality, lesbian teen, high school, lesbianism, lesbian love, friendship, youth, lgbtq, coming of age, softball ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When young Turkish talent Kutlug Ataman wanted to make a film about transvestites, the first location he had in mind was Istanbul. As he developed the script, his thought was to place these marginal characters, who are subject to societal prejudices ...
Style:
sexual, touching, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, transvestism, lgbt, homosexual, friendship, self discovery, couples, lifestyle, introspection, social misfits, society, discrimination ...
Time:
90s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, baghdad iraq
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on a work of Josep Maria Benet i Jornet entitled "Testament", the film tells the story of an aging professor of medieval literature with the dilemma of deciding who will inherit his essay on "The Book of friend and loved" ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, crying ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, male nudity, male pubic hair, gay teacher, lgbtq, pregnancy, friendship, terminal illness, midlife crisis, best friend, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, first love, teenage life, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, gay teenager, lgbt teen, nudity, friends, couples ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Satsuki (Tsugumi) and Takuya (Kenji Mizuhashi) are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been ...
Style:
erotic drama, erotic, disturbing, sensual, sexual ...
Plot:
school, fetish, sex, masochism, foot fetish, sexual perversion, forbidden love, teenager, cuckold, tournament, kendo, erotica ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A first love could quite possibly be the last for Sam, a Memphis teenager coming to terms with the romantic feelings he harbors for his best friend, Julian. Will the love he feels for this boy guide him through his struggles with his abusive father, ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sentimental, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
gay, high school, teenage love, coming of age, teenage life, best friend, youth, buddies, life is a bitch, society, lifestyle, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
memphis, tennessee
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
29-year-old Eban has retreated home to his parent's house in Seaside Oregon after the dissolution of his teaching job in Seattle. There he courts 15-year-old Charlie and eventually the two start a sexual relationship. As the age of consent in ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, sincere, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, intergenerational friendship, orgasm, friendship, family relations, teenage life, couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, homecoming, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
oregon, seattle, washington d.c., usa, charleston south carolina ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gay student, coming of age, fall in love, gays and lesbians, lgbt, teenage love, self discovery, gay interest, social misfits, lgbt teen ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, ...
Style:
sexy, serious, touching, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
lesbian, true love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, gays and lesbians, countryside, lifestyle, couples, breakup, lgbtq, fired from the job, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bolivia, paris france, europe, france, italy ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A single day. To challenge the past. To accept the present. To decide the future. Sam arrives in his home town after 18 months away, hopeful that Meg, the girlfriend he abandoned, will go back with him to the city. His return brings the outside ...
Style:
serious, realistic, independent film, crying, f word
Plot:
car accident, love triangle, small town, tragedy, love, self sacrifice, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic rivalry, car race, homecoming, young love ...
Time:
year 1965, 80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
27%
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