Movies like Valentino Returns

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Valentino Returns (1989)
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Valentino Returns (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This film successfully reaches its target of depicting components of small town life in the city of Stockton and its environs, where most of the filming took place. Set in the mid-1950s, the work stars Frederic Forrest and Veronica Cartwright as a couple whose marriage is falling apart, and Barry Tubb as their son and owner of the title vehicle.
Style: independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, biker, female nudity, divorce, male nudity, father daughter relationship, parents, best friend, cruise, religious fanatic, daughter, young love, failed marriage, husband wife relationship, preacher, coming of age, scandal, sex in car, caught having sex, sermon, slice of life, parents son relationship, new car, cruising
Time: year 1989, 1950s, 50s
Place: california

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Most similar movies to Valentino Returns

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, independent film and serious films with plots about coming of age, love and romance, family relations, female nudity, youth, small town and teenager mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Valentino Returns: All Summers End (2017), Only We Can Love Like This (1988), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), Forbidden Love (1990), The Last Picture Show (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All Summers End (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager tries to deal with his guilty conscience after his role in a prank that causes the death of his girlfriend's older brother.
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, rough, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: young love, small town, coming of age, confession, love, absent father, working mom, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, peer pressure, teenager, boyhood, petty theft ...
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95%
Only We Can Love Like This (1988)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Anneli is soon to be 17 years old. She lives alone with her mother and can barely remember her father who left the family 10 years ago. One day she receive a letter from her father, who is a helicopter pilot up north. Anneli decides to visit him, ...
Audience: teens
Plot: helicopter pilot, estranged parent, young love, mother daughter relationship, teenager, party, small town, father daughter relationship, single mother, coming of age, sex scene, female nudity ...
Place: eastern europe
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89%
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break ...
Style: erotic, sweet, romantic, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional marriage, obsession, small town, sex scene, adultery, love, working class, rich and poor, teenage girl, family relations, family feud ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: illinois, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Forbidden Love (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A coming of age drama from the fall of the Berlin Wall era.
Style: controversial
Audience: teens
Plot: underage sex, children, troubled relationship, young love, judge, first love, lolita, female nudity, sex, teacher, rape, puberty ...
Place: east berlin
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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The Last Picture Show (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.
Style: black and white, sentimental, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, friendship, high school, older woman younger man relationship, self discovery, teenager, elopement, nostalgia, graduation, death, depression ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1971, year 1951 ...
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, midwest, oklahoma ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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 230
Summer Affair (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted ...
Style: ambiguous ending, surprise ending, freeze frame
Plot: erotica, young love, hippie, island, desert island, love, coming of age, rich girl, parents, nudity, bare chested male, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Summer of '42 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: world war two, coming of age, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, summer vacation, sex, beach house, teenager, war widow, first love, love story, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 20th century, year 1942
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Liar's Moon (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, teenage love, teenager, coming of age, love, infidelity, social differences, parents and children, computers and web, small town life, small town, teenage life ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: texas, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Very Good Girls (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, loss of virginity, female friendship, friendship, youth, wooing, love and romance, teenage life, love triangle, teenage sexuality ...
Time: year 1992, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, wisconsin, tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Dark Side of the Sun (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: He risks it all for the love of a lifetime!
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Plot: terminal illness, biker, motorcycle, sad ending, bike, fall in love, redemption, love and romance, life is a bitch, small town life, small town, healing power ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Gypsy 83 (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.
Style: road movie, gothic, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: goth, music band, self discovery, friendship, on the road, gay lead character, on the run, artists and showbiz, twins, lifestyle, misfit, betrayal ...
Place: usa, ohio, new york
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63%
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Tanner Hall (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, independent film, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, teenage girl, friendship, girls' boarding school, nymphet, youth, lesbian, friends, power relations, social relations, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.4
 3K
Dakota Skye (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: For as long as she could remember, Dakota Skye has been cursed with a super power. She has the ability to see the truth in any lie she hears. From small, harmless white lies, to the more devious kind, they have come from the people that she should ...
Style: serious, independent film, captivating, indie film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage love, teen angst, teenage life, friendship, music band, sex in car, supernatural power, coming of age, lie, self acceptance, self discovery, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Table for Five (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie ...
Style: independent film, uplifting, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: cruise ship, cruise, coming of age, ship, family relations, divorce, youth, family vacation, single parent, human nature, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: mediterranean sea, italy, tunisia, cairo egypt, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Another attempt to bring the 1960s primetime serial back to network television
Style: soap opera
Plot: small town, scandal, generation, town, male female relationship, dark secret, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, village, family secret, respect, secret ...
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Normal Adolescent Behavior (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: High school student Wendy has an odd relationship with her five friends: They're openly sexual with each other, swapping partners every week. But this is all thrown into turmoil when she meets Sean, a new student in school who has a crush on ...
Style: serious, bleak, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: sex, teenager, high school, coming of age, teenage love, humiliation, high school life, innocence lost, friendship, teenage sexuality, best friend, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 677
First Love (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Golden-haired college soccer player William Katt falls hard for campus beauty Susan Dey, despite the fact that she's the mistress of an older, married attorney.
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, touching
Plot: love, love triangle, college, male nudity, bare breasts, lust, lawyer, soccer, mistress, nudity, college life, school ...
Time: 50s
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Man in the Moon (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they ...
Style: emotional, romantic, cute, period piece, sad ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, corporal punishment, first love, age difference, childhood, love story, love, sisters, small town, farm, bittersweet, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1991, year 1957, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.1
 164
Dearest Jane (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
Style: psychological, touching, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: friendship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, acceptance, love, father daughter relationship, death, family relations, love and romance, uncle niece relationship, small town, youth ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Delinquents (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
Style: independent film, sexual, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: abortion, forbidden love, baby, welfare, runaway, teenage love, sailor, family relations, couples, rock, small town life, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
All the Real Girls (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In a small North Carolina town, Paul, a womanizer, meets Noel, a confused intellectual returning home for the first time in years since she left for boarding school. The film depicts the typical romance of a good girl and a bad boy, in an ...
Style: romantic, sexy, melancholic, independent film, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: womanizer, small town, coming of age, regret, existentialism, depression, love, crumbling relationship, introspection, human nature, relationships, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: north carolina, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.0
 3K
Texasville (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. ...
Style: independent film, crying, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: depression, dysfunctional family, small town, midlife crisis, homecoming, wealth, husband wife relationship, nostalgia, mental illness, reconciliation, dysfunctional marriage, dog ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 4.9
 9K
Endless Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style: erotic, intense, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, mental illness, obsession, forbidden love, young lovers, arson, teen angst, mental institution, first love, teenage girl, sex scene, obsessive love ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: chicago, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Daydream Nation (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.
Style: melancholic, witty, teen, sweet, surreal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, sexual relations, teenage life, teenage love, coming of age, love triangle, nymphet, small town, love, teenager, depression, storytelling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Racing with the Moon (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into ...
Style: touching, sweet, sincere, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, coming of age, small town, character study, young lovers, unwanted pregnancy, self discovery, teenage life, love story, bowling, friendship between men, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Erika's Hot Summer (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them, and then dumping them. One day he meets the woman of his dreams on the beach: Erika. Once he's frolicked on the beach and taken her to bed, the other ...
Style: independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film
Plot: beach, photographer, sexploitation, nightclub, homicide, female nudity, male full rear nudity, bare breasts, erotica, male nudity, sex scene, hippie ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, retro, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, mother daughter relationship, love, women, friendship, adolescence, desert, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is ...
Style: historical romance, independent film, erotic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: gypsy, virgin, sensuality, family relations, looking for love, tragic love, small town, adolescence vs adulthood, village, unfulfilled love, social differences, village life ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england, europe, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.3
 298
Young Hearts (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Two young neighbors embark on a first love relationship in which they struggle to remain kids amid the complexities of modern adolescence.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, touching, sentimental, romantic comedy
Audience: teens
Plot: new love, love, high school, teen romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, love and romance, friendship between teens, friendship, teenage boy, teenage love, teenage girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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