Movies like Down the Shore
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Down the Shore (2011)
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set on the Jersey shore, the lives of three childhood friends begin to unravel when a secret from their past is revealed
Style:
sincere, realistic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, gloomy
Plot:
best friends, haunted by the past, friends, brother brother relationship, neighbor, american abroad, mother son relationship, suspense, amusement park, social relations, under the surface, football, mental disorder, cancer, beach, letter, mentally challenged, frenchman, seaside, coastal town, loss of sister, brother in law, mental retardation, brother in law brother in law relationship, seaside town ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new jersey, usa, paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and captivating films with plots about friends, profanity, haunted by the past, friendship, love and romance, danger and best friends mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like Down the Shore: Uncle John (2015), Bloodworth (2010), The Elephant King (2006), California Scheming (2014), Not Waving But Drowning (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved
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tense, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, social relations, homecoming, unlikely criminals, disappearance, manipulation, dishonesty, under the surface, small town life, small town, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
illinois, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by ...
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country music, haunted by the past, family problems, fall in love, love and romance, small town, estrangement, spouse leaving, family relations, country, family curse, graphic violence ...
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Place:
tennessee, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
introspection, fall in love, family relations, brother brother relationship, american abroad, nightclub, self discovery, depression, lgbt, interracial relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
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21st century
Place:
thailand, usa, asia, manhattan new york city, new york
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79%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teen seductress pulls three other privileged Malibu kids into her devious scheme, and unforeseen consequences force the group to face their own fears and mortality.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual content, dishonesty, best friends, dangerous attraction, disorder, teenage life, boy girl relationship, teenager, manipulation, friends, moral dilemma, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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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, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, starting over, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, society, relationships, friends, best friends
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new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the trail of her missing sister, Charlotte enlists the help of Wayne, an ex-Marine and alcoholic, to infiltrate the Church of One Accord - a community of snake-handlers who risk their lives seeking salvation in the Holy Ghost.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
religions or cults, rescue, uncover truth, missing person, woman in danger, clergy, religion, anti christianity, religious fanaticism, brainwashing, mountain, siblings ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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70%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After painter Michael 'Mike' Sheldrake's failed suicide attempt, house-mate and life-long best friend Peter Tremaine, an antiques shop owner, reminisces their common past, like Mike does in therapy. It started at the beach, when ...
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Plot:
haunted by the past, friends, friendship, fall in love, power relations, jealousy, father figure, love, flashback sequence, suicide attempt, performer's life, best friends ...
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Place:
england
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69%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
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Plot:
rivalry, dishonesty, couple relations, secret, suspense, uncover truth, maniac, murder, family problems, sexual abuse, woman in danger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
Style:
psychological, realistic, tense, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, missing child, religions or cults, clergy, church, social relations, small town, brainwashing, priest, winter, gay, snow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
social relations, injustice, homecoming, haunted by the past, political unrest, social differences, society, teenage life, working class, corrupt law enforcer, african american, black love ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
asthma, fall in love, self discovery, love affair, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couples, novelist, society, womanizer, sexual content, singleness ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A beach runner and bookworm (Goldblum) has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming between him and his son. The ensuing E.S.P. experiences and ...
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realistic, serious, touching, offbeat
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serial killer, family relations, orphan, investigation, supernatural ability, life is a bitch, murder, addiction, family in danger, alcohol abuse, parents and children, friendship ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, friendship, understanding, family relations, society, gay, best friends, twentysomething life, friend, sex, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around ...
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21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, homecoming, best friends, couples, breakup, missing person, friendship, graphic violence, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, downfall, friends ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After his fiancee breaks up with him and gets engaged to another man, Dennis can't get over the idea that the cheap engagement ring he bought may have triggered it. When she dies, he convinces two grave robbers to steal the new ring from her ...
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Plot:
true love, obsession, love and romance, haunted by the past, breakup, wedding, suspense, grave robbing, wedding ring, love
Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Chance Williams (Underwood), a man whose life is torn apart when his wife and unborn child are killed in a bizarre accident. Chance comes to believe Lauren (Morgan), wife to best friend Michael (Beach), is the only woman who can love and help him, ...
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Plot:
stalking, pregnancy, obsession, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty, best friends, vengeance, dealing with death, crumbling marriage, psychopath, couples ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Linked by a rare psychological disorder, Noah Greene and Emily Gates must uncover the mystery of a tragic past in order to find hope for the future.
Style:
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Plot:
memory loss, mental illness, haunted by the past, couples, uncover truth, destiny, youth, hopes, foreknowledge, small town, deception, suspense ...
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future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the ...
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Plot:
serial killer, childhood trauma, murder, obsession, twists and turns, friendship, violence, killing spree, prostitute, transsexual, suspense, gang rape ...
Time:
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Place:
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52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Nine former schoolmates, staying at a secluded mountain cabin for a reunion, try to figure out why one of their friends and their hostess would invite them there and commit suicide which prompts them to look into the mysterious and dark past of ...
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sexy, psychological, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot:
friends, friendship, human nature, parents and children, haunted by the past, couples, family relations, vengeance, gays and lesbians, youth, introspection, mountain ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future has held in store for them.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
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Plot:
self discovery, haunted by the past, homecoming, parents and children, family relations, buddies, redemption, estrangement, hopes, friends, bittersweet, car accident ...
Time:
21st century
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poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
friendship, mental illness, amusement park, misfit, self discovery, best friends, social misfits, betrayal, buddies, life is a bitch, missing person, down on your luck ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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70s
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spain, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
As we follow a mother and her son, we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the ...
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psychological, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sincere ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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