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Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for. - imdb
Plot: flapper, dancing, revenge, neighbor, maid, flirting, brother sister relationship, popularity, hair, bicycle, female protagonist, makeover, redheaded woman, college student, coming of age, rolls royce, conversation, croquet, aunt niece relationship, cousin cousin relationship, dinner party, barbershop, overheard conversation, dance, cutting one's own hair ...
Time: 1920s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, serious and crying films with plots about coming of age, dancing, female protagonist, family relations, brother sister relationship, teenager and teenage girl mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Bernice Bobs Her Hair: Vera (2019), Birds of Paradise (2021), Echo Park LA (2006), Tender Is the Night (1962), Love Finds You in Charm (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Vera (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: After a booze-fueled fling with an older American businessman, a young Russian woman, decides to follow him back to the States under the guise of starting a relationship.
Style: serious, enigmatic, dramatic, captivating
Plot: sister, pregnant girlfriend, brother sister relationship, older sister, pregnant woman, female protagonist, businessman, family dinner, woman, dinner, russian woman, dinner party
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95%
Birds of Paradise (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two dancers at an elite ballet academy in Paris must compete for a contract to join the highly coveted Opéra National de Paris as they confront their competitive nature, sexual awakenings and how far they would go to win.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, teen, touching
Plot: ballet, ballerina, dancing, dancehall girl, dancer's life, rivalry, ambition, ambitious woman, female protagonist, dancer, showdown, direction and purpose ...
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78%
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Echo Park LA (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, gay, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, lgbt, religion, virginity, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, teenage life ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa, glendale california
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76%
Tender Is the Night (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Director Henry King's 1962 film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel stars Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards Jr., Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell, Paul Lukas and Jill St. John.
Style: retro
Plot: drug addiction, psychology, mental disorder, mental illness, mental health, bare chested male, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, alcoholism, jealousy, nightclub, wealth ...
Time: 1920s
Place: zurich switzerland, france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Love Finds You in Charm (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.
Style: captivating, touching, contemplative, sincere
Plot: amish, female bonding, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, female protagonist, breakup, young woman, librarian, competition, aunt niece relationship, female friendship, sister sister relationship ...
Place: ohio
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72%
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The Rachels (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a popular teen falls to her death, her best friend basks in the glow of the social media attention, while their rival seeks to avenge the past and uncover the truth behind the mysterious death.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, exciting
Audience: teens
Plot: death of best friend, psychopath, social media, high school, fame, female protagonist, ambition, teenage life, popularity, secret, murder investigation, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Hope (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth.
Plot: cuban missile crisis, racism, school, racist, missile, crisis, white supremacy, interracial relations, small town, fire, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist ...
Time: 60s
Place: cuba, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.6
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Drylongso (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young woman (Toby Smith) in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.
Style: independent film
Plot: women of color, black girl, photography, african american, college student, fear, woman, photojournalism, death, violence, physical abuse, dancing ...
Place: oakland california
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60%
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Lakshmi (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A school student, who is passionate about dance, sets out to join a national-level competition without her mother’s knowledge.
Style: entertaining, dramatic, captivating, exciting
Plot: female protagonist, child, dance performance, dance, dancing, dream come true, contests and competitions, bigger dreams, dreaming, contest, young woman, dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines ...
Style: psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, theatre group, depression, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship, underage drinking, african american, theatre director, public speaking, job, father ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Cora Unashamed (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: From the short story by Langston Hughes.
Plot: father daughter relationship, life changing, interracial, loss of daughter, grief, housekeeper, death of child, racist, black american, servant, african american, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Place: midwest, iowa
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53%
The Starling Girl (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Style: crying
Plot: sin, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, father daughter relationship, shame, alcoholic father, religion, secret relationship, masturbation, sexual repression, sexual awakening, loss of virginity ...
Place: memphis, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Yelling to the Sky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, depression, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, alcoholic, going straight, youth, society, hopes, coming of age, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 3.6
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How She Move (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, follow your dream, contests and competitions, teenage life, friendship, black people, ambition, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Sexual Dependency (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A poor girl, a rich stud, a university student and a model -- nothing in common, except the desire to experience true intimacy. Their stories unfold and overlap as each becomes victim to their own sexual dependencies, self-perceptions and illusions. ...
Style: erotic, psychological, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot: sexual abuse, sexual relations, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, human nature, life is a bitch, love and romance, youth, teenage life, male nudity, gay, self discovery ...
Place: south america, bolivia, latin america
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50%
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 4K
Anne B. Real (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.9
 140
Arresting Gena (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
Style: independent film
Plot: female friendship, irresponsible, mother daughter relationship, terminal illness, teenager, female protagonist, sexuality, youth, teenage protagonist, coming of age, teenage girl
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45%
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A Colony (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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Story: Camille wanders through the countryside talking with frogs and chickens: she sails through life as a carefree soul. But for her older sister, the introverted Mylia, things are more complicated. Mylia is lost between the uncertainty in her family ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Style: psychotronic, underground film, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film
Plot: fetish, nudie cutie, prostitution, bondage, sadism, exploitation, kinky sex, sadomasochism, good girl gone bad, fraud, new job, model ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.3
 907
Old Enough (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Audience: teens
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Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
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Story: A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception of the world and no idea how to live in it.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Consenting Adult (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die - which, in the end, he really does, ...
Style: sad, crying
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Place: washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Co-ed Call Girl (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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40%
The Education of Charlie Banks (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: College student Charlie Banks has to face old problems when the bully he had an unpleasant encounter with back in high school shows up on his campus.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, college, haunted by the past, college life, bullying, youth, moral dilemma, buddies, roommate, love triangle, teenager, gay ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
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38%
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 12K
Sherrybaby (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a ...
Style: independent film, bleak, depressing, serious, sexual ...
Audience: adult
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
 71
Mirrors (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Plot: ballerina, ballet, career, marriage proposal, dancer, love, reporter, female protagonist, love triangle, dancing, muscleman, bare chested male ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.6
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Cuties (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Amy, an 11-year-old girl, joins a group of dancers named “the cuties” at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity—upsetting her mother and her values in the process.
Style: controversial, independent film, sad, crying, disgusting
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Time: 2010s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.5
 655
Consent (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A wealthy Manhattan family's inability to cope with the suicide of their eldest daughter sends them into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and sexual taboos that threatens to destroy them.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, poignant ...
Plot: suicide, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship, coming of age, adultery, cynicism, looking for love, love and romance, life is a bitch, grief, voyeurism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Though None Go with Me (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Elizabeth Leroy devotes her life to serving God but her faith is tested over the years as she has to overcome many hardships and sorrows.
Style: period drama
Plot: faith, christian, bike, correspondence, father daughter relationship, neighbor, dancing, insurance agent, romantic triangle, wedding ceremony, first love, reverend ...
Time: 1950s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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