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It Felt Like Love (2013)
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It Felt Like Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to have a love interest of her own, a bravado-filled Lila pursues Sammy, a tough but handsome older boy....
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, erotic, sexy, captivating, underground film, psychological, social, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, youth, obsession, self discovery, friendship, best friend, wooing, hot guys, teenager, sexuality, sex, strong female lead, crazy love, unrequited love, beach, male nudity, lie, teenage sexuality, friendship between girls, sexual awakening, dance, sexual curiosity, sexually explicit ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Keyword: feminist film

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about youth, coming of age, teenager, teenage life, teenage girl, friendship and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like It Felt Like Love: Melissa P. (2005), Little Birds (2011), Being 14 (2015), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), Fat Girl (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Melissa P. (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Style: sensual, sexy, tense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: teenage sexuality, loss of virginity, teenage sex, first sex, orgy, innocence lost, coming of age, sex, adolescence, sexual content, parent child relationship, self discovery ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: sicily, italy
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Little Birds (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: attempted rape, teenage life, coming of age, self discovery, rebellion, youth, street kid, estrangement, bait, leaving home, adolescence vs adulthood, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Being 14 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, friends, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Style: sad, social, meditative, serious, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, abortion, female protagonist, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, adolescence, teenager, feminist, abortion clinic, 17 year old ...
Time: year 2019, 2020s, 2010s
Place: pennsylvania, new york
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Fat Girl (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, ...
Style: bleak, erotic, psychological, sexy, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, innocence lost, rape, sexuality, virginity, first love, virgin, defloration, female nudity, sexual abuse, first time, rapist ...
Time: 90s, year 2001, 2000s
Place: france, south of france, rome italy, paris france
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Kids (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychedelic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, virginity, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, street kid, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa
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Arresting Gena (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
Style: independent film
Plot: female friendship, irresponsible, mother daughter relationship, terminal illness, teenager, female protagonist, sexuality, youth, teenage protagonist, coming of age, teenage girl
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Jess + Moss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, farm, self discovery, teenage life, friendship, love and romance, society, smoking, teenager, childhood, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
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Forbidden Fruit (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, friendship between girls, best friend, teenage life, conservatism, conservative morals, religion, lifestyle, youth, fish out of water, culture clash ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: helsinki finland, europe, finland
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Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself ...
Style: erotic, touching, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, self discovery, love and romance, prostitute, coming of age, dysfunctional family, adolescence, unlikely friendships, redemption, family relations, introspection, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1971, year 1935
Place: georgia, usa
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Foxes (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
Style: stylized, sexual, social, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, relationships, addiction, drug abuse, girl gang, sex, drug addiction, teen angst, hardcore, street kid ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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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
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Suburban Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 63 min.
Story: 16-vuotias Minna on kyllästynyt kiltin tytön elämään. Kaikki kaverit elävät Minnan mielestä vauhdikasta ja mielenkiintoista elämää, johon kuuluvat niin seurustelut kuin sekoilutkin. Päästäkseen kokemaan kaiken tämän saman Minna ...
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Duration: 80 min.
Story: Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating
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Future Weather (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, controversial, sexual, spooky ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: long island
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My Brother Tom (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a ...
Style: psychological, rough, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: male nudity, woods, friendship, rebellion, teenage boy, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, youth, social misfits, friends, escape from reality, dysfunctional family ...
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Night Has Settled (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, humorous, sexual
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Time: year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, mockumentary
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Sonja is struggling to deal with her parent separation, and find her feelings for her best friend might not just be a phase.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, sexy, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
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Time: 21st century
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Circumstance (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession
Style: touching, emotional, atmospheric, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, first lesbian experience, teenage girl, lgbt, closeted lesbian, iranian, family relations, teenage life, lesbian love, rebellion, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, tehran iran, persia, indiana ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) discovers that her "good girl" daughter (Alexis Dziena) is part of a group who are engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners. Such activity ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: friends, city life, friendship, understanding, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, britain
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Dear Prudence (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens
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Place: france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story: This Belgian drama is about the special bond between father and daughter. Paul is a 46 year old PI. Dorothy is almost 16 and has an identity crisis when she finds out her father isn't her biological father. Her mother won't tell her ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgium, brussels
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Buddha Mountain (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: teenage life, rebelliousness, teenage love, best friend, rebellion, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, urban, dealing with death
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, china
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Big Girls Don't Cry (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they're both 17 and enjoying the ups and downs of becoming adults together. While Kati's parents are religious and conservative, but argue constantly, Steffi comes from what ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, touching, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: best friend, youth, moral dilemma, teenage life, envy, teenage crush, parent child relationship, rivalry, vengeance, puberty, innocence lost, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany
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Come Home Raquel (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Raquel, a 13 year old living in Queens, NY, struggles to make sense of her life after the deportation of her parents. Things quickly change upon the arrival of a new teacher and the return of her young uncle.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: teacher student relationship, uncle niece relationship, new teacher, missing mother, broken family, teenager, second chance, coming of age, children, latina, middle school, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A high school kid (Sumpter) develops an addiction to Internet porn so intense that it begins to destroy his life and tear his family apart.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage sexuality, friendship, addiction, high school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, lifestyle, obsession, youth, student, teenage girl, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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