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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (1971)
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (1971)
Original name: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
Plot: fraternity, college life, cheerleader, dancing, student, friendship, wine, priest, rebellion, beatnik, telephone call, cigarette smoking, activist, college student, college campus, kiss, fireplace, jeans, beer drinking
Time: year 1971, 1950s, 50s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and sincere films with plots about kiss, telephone call, cigarette smoking, friendship, student, college and college student mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me: Class of '74 (1972), A Reason to Believe (1995), Spinning Into Butter (2007), Goat (2016), Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Class of '74 (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Inhibited college student Gabriella slowly learns about how awesome sex and '70s-style free love is, with the help of her three significantly more experienced roommates.
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A Reason to Believe (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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Spinning Into Butter (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, emotional ...
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Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: vermont, new england, usa, chicago
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Goat (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.
Style: disturbing, captivating, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
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Time: 21st century
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
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Time: 60s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
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Time: 60s
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Fraternity Row (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Director Thomas J. Tobin's 1977 drama about college freshmen subjected to fraternity hazing stars Gregory Harrison, Peter Fox, Scott Newman, Nancy Morgan and Wendy Phillips.
Plot: fraternity, campus, college, sorority, mockery, college freshman, college campus, accidental death, initiation, mccarthyism, oar
Time: year 1954, 1950s
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Country: USA
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39%
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32%
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