Movies like Waiting for the Rain

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Waiting for the Rain (1978)
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Waiting for the Rain (1978)
Original name: Čekání na déšť
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 70 min.
Story: It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals, keeping most people at a safe distance, yet trying to get male attention.
Plot: summer, traumatic childhood, dog, loneliness, subway, soldier, ambulance, teenage girl, blind man, actor, mother daughter relationship, rain, tarot card, heat wave, teenage boy, platonic, abandoned building, seeing eye dog, hairdresser, ladybug, boredom, home alone, underage drinking, romantic rivalry, fantasy life ...
Place: eastern europe, prague

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Most similar movies to Waiting for the Rain

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and crying films with plots about teenage girl, teenage boy, mother daughter relationship, teenager, summer, female nudity and coming of age mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Waiting for the Rain: Romance for Bugle (1967), A Swedish Love Story (1970), Love Between the Raindrops (1980), The High Wall (1964), Appeal to Your Love (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Romance for Bugle (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: summer, first love, seductive behavior, man in underwear, topless woman, old man, male objectification, river, coming of age, arranged marriage, memory, teenage protagonist ...
Place: eastern europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The youngsters puppy love is set against a backdrop of adults that struggle with their own lives. Her fathers feeling of misery and failure at work, her aunts unhappiness as an unmarried woman without kids of her own. His father work at the ...
Style: aesthetic, powerful, sentimental, erotic
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, teenager, coming of age, young love, fight, love, adolescence, first love, love story, nordic, summer, teenage love ...
Time: year 1970, near future
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Karel Bursík, as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father, a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children hoping they would escape a country poverty. He soon threw his daughter Vera out of home; he did ...
Plot: economist, renaissance, unfaithfulness, sex, brother brother relationship, voyeurism, suburbs, family relations, grape, brother brother conflict, father daughter relationship, memory ...
Time: 1930s
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Appeal to Your Love (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A sad story about love between Czech boy and German girl during 1944.
Style: period piece
Plot: world war two, sensuality, first love, traumatic childhood, czech german relations, wedding ceremony, xenophobia, photograph, old woman, redhead, goat, teenager ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s
Place: eastern europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Love in the Rain (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are ...
Plot: teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, spa, extramarital affair, italian woman, cheating wife, underage drinking, teenage girl, teenage crush, young love, cooking, broken heart ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.5
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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 ⇓
61%
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Love (1973)
Genre: Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has ...
Plot: love, teen romance, family relations, mother daughter relationship, teenage boy, father son relationship, teenage girl, disguise, teenager, 16 year old, teenage protagonist, coffin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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What a Sun (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
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
Place: slovenia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Day for My Love (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination ...
Style: crying, freeze frame
Plot: children, renaissance, anton chekhov, bare chested male, photography, trauma, photograph, restaurant, birthday, photographer, female nudity, doctor ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Porcupine Lake (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world ...
Style: psychological, contemplative, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Plot: teenage girl, coming of age, summer, lesbian, friendship, girl, childhood, lgbtq, friends, love and romance, youth, society ...
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.8
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My Two Loves (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A widow emerges from her mourning after a year. She moves into a new apartment, gets a new job, and a gains a 'gentleman caller' her late husband's partner and former best friend. Her daughter opposes the relationship and causes ...
Plot: lesbian mother, lesbian, lesbian relationship, gender, closeted homosexual, girlfriend, bisexuality, moving, male female relationship, lesbian romance, lesbian interest, lgbtq ...
Place: texas, san antonio texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Children's Island (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Reine is supposed to go to a summercamp called 'Childrens island' but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hotel. She thinks he is at the camp and he tells her he his. We then follow him around ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, boy, puberty, sex, older woman younger man relationship, child's point of view, erection, teenage sexuality, age-gap relationship, boyhood, childhood, virginity ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Along for the Ride (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The summer before college, Auden meets the mysterious Eli, a fellow insomniac. While the seaside town of Colby sleeps, the two embark on nightly quests to help Auden experience the fun, carefree teen life she never knew she wanted.
Style: romantic, disturbing, captivating, psychological, teen ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: summer, teen romance, love and romance, romantic relationship, dating, teenager, insomnia, couple relations, teenage protagonist, adolescence, relationships, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Ava (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her ...
Style: captivating, art house, touching, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, first love, summer vacation, beach, female pubic hair, underage sex, nudism, female protagonist, coming of age, teenage sexuality, coping ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.4
 2K
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
Plot: friendship, friend, relationships, life, love and romance, friends, teenage boy, youth, teenager, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, estranged mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Hanging Garden (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but ...
Style: independent film, stylized, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, wedding ceremony, dysfunctional family, suicide, coming of age, caught having sex, obesity, homosexual, glbt, sexuality, family relations, hanging ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
You & Me Forever (2012)
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, touching, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, best friend, friendship, coming of age, teenage sexuality, life turned upside down, lesbian, loss of innocence, jealousy, mysterious character, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Style: sexy, touching, romantic, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cheating wife, infidelity, hippie, bittersweet, coming of age, love affair, summer vacation, lust, erotica, family relations, secret relationship, sex in car ...
Time: 60s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: new york, usa, woodstock, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Biarritz. 16 year-old George, the high-school hottie, falls in love with Alex. To get his attention, she initiates a group game with Alex, Nikita, Laetitia and Gabriel. They will discover, test, and push the limits of their sexuality.
Style: sexy, psychological, tense, captivating, steamy ...
Plot: sex scene, teenage sex, teenage sexuality, group of friends, sex, sex party, skinny dipping, virgin, unprotected sex, strong sexual content, erotica, teenager ...
Place: europe, morocco, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Very Unsettled Summer (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, UK, Romania, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man becomes lured into a fictional game his ex-girlfriend has initiated. Sexually ensnared by her, and now realizing the fragility of the border between the real and the imagined, he begins to unravel. He convinces himself that if he can only ...
Plot: living together, unfaithful boyfriend, ex girlfriend, sex scene, summer, british man, female nudity, cheating, writers, couples, cheating girlfriend, voice recording
Place: bucharest, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Country Teacher (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A gifted and well-qualified young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. The teac... read more read more...her has no romantic ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot: gay, unrequited love, starting over, introspection, friendship, couples, self control, hopes, youth, love and romance, human nature, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, prague, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Two in the Shadow (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Style: romantic drama, realistic, serious, gloomy, atmospheric
Plot: abortion, love story, summer, outsider, death of husband, forbidden love, widow, car accident, funeral, demotion, japanese wife, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Path of the Beast (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: 17 year old Saki lives in a run-down hack with her mom who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games ...
Plot: female fight, aimlessness, connection, rivalry, drinking alcohol, erotica, beach, love, truck, bicycle, female masturbation, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Meeting in July (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.
Plot: rural setting, bare chested male, nudity, summer vacation, strong female lead, male objectification, teacher student relationship, older woman younger man relationship, summer, teacher, single mother, little boy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, ...
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, harsh, cynical ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, couples, coming of age, friendship, dysfunctional family, relationships, teenage love, love story, loneliness, family relations, youth, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, dominican republic, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Free Radicals (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: love affair, teenage life, introspection, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, love and romance, youth, destructive relationship, hopes, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, europe, brazil, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.4
 2K
Frankie (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story: About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal.
Plot: women, girl, bare chested male, gay husband, beach, legend, amish, tram, fate, woods, one day, teenage daughter ...
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 5K
Heights (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, infidelity, adultery, secrets, existentialism, character study, lifestyle, introspection, city life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, actor's life ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, czech republic, london, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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