Movies like Bitter-Sweet

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Bitter-Sweet (1996)
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Bitter-Sweet (1996)
Original name: Slodko gorzki
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mateusz, Igor, Marlon i Paulina chodzą do jednego liceum. Po powrocie z Budapesztu Mateusz dowiaduje się, że jeden z kolegów, niejaki Bąbel, powiesił się na szkolnym boisku. Przejmując się tragedią znajomego chłopaka, postanawia na własną rękę przeprowadzić śledztwo w sprawie jego śmierci. Igor, który znalazł ciało Bąbla, wie co się stało, ale boi się mówić. Podobnie jest z innymi uczniami, nawet nauczycielami, którzy zajęci są głównie swoimi prywatnymi problemami. Ostatnią szansę widzi w rozmowie z zakochaną w nim Pauliną, ale dziewczyna pozostawia go samego w walce o poznanie prawdy.
Plot: school, basketball, party, jealousy, suicide, pretty girl, high school, private investigation, suicide by hanging, math teacher, kiss, classroom, guitar playing, shaving, kissing, campfire, playing guitar
Place: warsaw poland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, realistic and touching films with plots about kiss, high school, school, jealousy, friendship, teenager and youth mostly in Drama, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Bitter-Sweet: Blessed Events (2010), Screen Test (1977), What's Up with Cinta? (2002), Say 'I Love You' (2014), What's Left of You (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blessed Events (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Again the film centres on a decidedly ordinary young woman – here, thirtysomething single Simone – caught up in an extraordinary situation: finding she’s pregnant after an anonymous (and evidently rare) one-night stand, she visits the hospital ...
Plot: bare chested male, dinner, sex scene, party, dancing, fatherhood, nightclub, kiss, bed, kissing
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Screen Test (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has ...
Plot: filmmaking, party, cheating, aspiring actor, orphan, coming of age, virgin, high school, love at first sight, first sex, naive girl, children's home ...
Time: 70s
Place: poland
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What's Up with Cinta? (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.
Style: captivating, romantic, teen, indonesian
Audience: teens
Plot: love, high school, poetry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, love story, moral dilemma, male female relationship, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, love and romance ...
Place: indonesia
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Say 'I Love You' (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mei Tachibana is a high school student. Due to a traumatic incident when she was a kid, Mei has been unable to make friends or have boyfriends. By mistake, Mei then injures the most popular male student named Yamato Kurosawa. Somehow, Yamato ...
Style: sexy, anime, shoujo, sincere, light ...
Plot: high school crush, nubile girl, teenager, jealousy, school, classmate, family relations, friendship, couples, rivalry, society, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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What's Left of You (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story: On his 18th birthday, wealthy but spoiled Ozgur(Ekin Koc) gets a surprise from his deceased grandfather's will. He has to leave his luxurious life in Istanbul and graduate from a public school in a small village on the Aegean coast. After ...
Style: romantic, light, sincere, colorful
Plot: school, first love, inheritance, last will and testament, orphanage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, promise, countryside, getting home, wealth, rural setting, flashback ...
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Right On, Man! (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, broken family, troubled teen, social problems, human animal relationship, crush, father son relationship, absent father, youth culture, theft, suburbs, family relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: finland, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Annie O (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a 15-year-old becomes the first female starter on her high school's male basketball team, her achievement is marred by the treatment she receives at the hands of her teammates, her brother and even her boyfriend.
Plot: high school sports, basketball, high school, high school basketball
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, couples, homecoming, love and romance, society, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, infidelity, seduction, family business, lovers reunited, nude bathing ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Only the Brave (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: lgbt, coming of age, erotica, incest, sexual abuse, friendship, drug abuse, teachers and students, life is a bitch, love and romance, self discovery, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
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42%
Her Last Chance (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
Plot: death, accident, teenager, jealousy, drug addict, drug addiction, party, drug, defense attorney, assault, friendship, cigarette smoking ...
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I Ask to Accuse Klava K. of My Death (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
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Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, psychological
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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We 3 (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
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40%
Love in Thoughts (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
Style: serious, disturbing, stylized, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, gays and lesbians, betrayal, youth, bohemian life, lgbt, unrequited love, lifestyle, celebration, weekend, lgbtq, love triangle ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, post world war one, pre world war two
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Eternal Summer (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
Style: realistic, sexy, sentimental, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia, taipei, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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37%
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36%
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34%
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34%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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34%
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31%
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31%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Style: sad, touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
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