Movies like Terra Nova 1998

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Terra Nova (1998)
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Terra Nova (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A disturbed young woman runs away from her New Zealand home and hides away in an Australian boarding house, named Terra Nova. There she finds that every one else in the boarding house is just as zany as she is, and on some levels make her seem sane despite the voices in her head and her strange visions.
Plot: skinhead, water, beach, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, neo nazi, dysfunctional family, hallucination, male female relationship, astrologer, boarding house, weirdo, brother brother relationship, surrogate family, hiding, eccentricity, coast
Place: new zealand

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, independent film, psychological and realistic films with plots about dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, family relations, teenage girl, male female relationship, family problems and beach mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Terra Nova: San Diego Surf (1968), Another Child (2019), Rockaway (2017), Dreams I Never Had (2017), Fighting for My Daughter (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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San Diego Surf (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr. Morrissey of La Jolla Realty. Their daughter, Ingrid Superstar, is pregnant and on the hunt for a husband. Mr. Mead, who is gay, tries ...
Plot: pregnant daughter, cruise, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, beach, gay father, gay parent, gay husband, coast
Place: california
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95%
Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Kristin (Danica McKellar), daughter of upper middle class parents, can hardly stand the immense pressure to fulfill her mother's (Dee Wallace Stone) dream of success in sports and high school. In this tense situation she gets emotional support ...
Plot: parents, age difference, dilemma, runaway teen, teenage girl, runaway, bare chested male, pregnant teenager, mother daughter relationship, teenage pregnancy
Place: louisiana
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62%
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Another Child (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 17-year-old Joo-ri discovers her father is having an affair with the mother of her hard-headed classmate Yoon-ah.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Audience: teen drama
Plot: love affair, mother daughter relationship, family problems, family relations, parents and children, male female relationship, relationships, teenage life, teenage girl, love interest, teenager, teenage protagonist ...
Place: korea, south korea
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61%
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Rockaway (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, a man recounts the summer of '94, when he and his brother plotted revenge against their abusive father.
Style: realistic, psychological
Plot: abusive father, revenge, dysfunctional family, family relations, domestic violence, life is a bitch, relationship problems, child abuse, bad father, brother brother relationship, father and son, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Dreams I Never Had (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's young gardener, himself an illegal from Mexico. Their friendship carries both of them through their hopeless, sequestered lives and ultimately ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere
Plot: teenage girl, wealthy family, illegal alien, slave girl, domestic violence, couple relations, forbidden love, teenager, dysfunctional family, teenage love, male female relationship, slave ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Fighting for My Daughter (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
Plot: drug, bare chested male, physical abuse, drinking, mother daughter relationship, jail, sex, prison, male female relationship, nightclub, fight, prostitution ...
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56%
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Mar de fondo (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A middle-aged man calls into question his life choices and his own morals after a flirtation with a teenage girl at the beach.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: teenager, couple relations, older man younger woman relationship, beach, relationships, male female relationship, marital infidelity, infidelity, beach party, writers, teenage girl
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This women in prison drama tells us a story about the mother of three children, who was falsely accused for a crime she did not commit (drug dealing), arrested and locked up behind bars.
Plot: drug, youth, prison visit, trial, suicide attempt, solitary, learning the truth, divorce, women in prison, friendship, single mother, war on drugs ...
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51%
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Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, independent film, interesting ...
Plot: teenage girl, sex with a minor, mother daughter relationship, statutory rape, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations, love affair, teenage life, teenage love, intrigue, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Birch Interval (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.
Style: independent film
Plot: city, unfaithfulness, eccentricity, 11 year old girl, rural setting, male female relationship, adultery, infidelity, mental illness, husband wife relationship, girl, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1976, post world war two
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Virgins (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenage Lana is languishing in her run-down hometown on Israel’s sun-soaked north coast—until an older, attractive writer arrives with tales of a mermaid sighting off the shore of the declining resort town.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, sincere, suspense
Plot: teenage girl, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, sea, beach, teenage life, life is a bitch, israeli, woman, women, bare chested male, photography ...
Place: palestine
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48%
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My Dog Killer (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Môj pes Killer is a one-day drama portraying eighteen-year-old Marek living near the Slovak-Moravian border with his dad and his racist friends. However, Marek's best true friend is his dog. His life is shaken up when he discovers the secret ...
Style: tense, serious, sincere, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: skinhead, racism, social decay, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, dangerous animal, pets, society, racist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Midnight Dancer (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: blonde, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, nightclub, dance, job, dancer
Time: 60s
Place: sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Gracie's Choice (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, custody battle, coming of age, youth, custody, adoption, responsibility, parents and children, family values, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
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45%
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The Unpolished (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their ...
Style: captivating, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot: teenage sexuality, generation gap, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, parent child relationship, relocation, coming of age, drug use, cheating wife, bare breasts, unfaithful husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Frozen (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of hypothermia. He calls this protest against the coldness of ...
Style: controversial, independent film, avant garde, crying
Plot: suicide, spring, psychiatric hospital, eccentricity, insanity, hypothermia, male female relationship, eternity, young man, weirdo, emptiness, counterculture ...
Time: future
Place: haiti, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Caterpillar Wish (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young girl's view on belonging and loss.
Plot: bicycle, female nudity, friendship, book, mother daughter relationship, bare breasts, priest, hotel, small town, police, coastal town, sea ...
Place: south australia, australia
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42%
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Interlude (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Sofia, recently separated, takes her daughters to a small coastal town. Each one in their own universe, live the interlude as a challenge to free themselves and face their fears.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
Plot: mother daughter relationship, separation, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, family life, breakup, mother and daughter, single mother, relationship problems, life is a bitch, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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April's Daughter (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having ...
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, melancholic, cult classic
Plot: teenage girl, real estate agent, mother daughter relationship, teenage pregnancy, baby, infidelity, lgbt, seductive woman, teenage mother, horny woman, nudity, pregnant woman ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Into Dad's Woods (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the woods, even to forget them. Jimmy's more and more frequent skids end up alarming his wife ...
Style: captivating
Plot: mental illness, family relations, mental institution, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, relationships, family problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, love affair, parents and children, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Red Thread (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: teenage life, adolescence, teen romance, couple relations, grownups, romantic relationship, teenage girl, male female relationship, couples, teenage protagonist, spirituality, dysfunctional family ...
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37%
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Angel Face (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
Style: touching, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, single mother, adult child friendship, little girl, relationship problems, parents and children, mother child relationship, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
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36%
When the Whales Came (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life ...
Style: independent film
Plot: whale, youth, recluse, beach, island, eccentricity, family relations, weirdo, boy, girl, anti war, deafness ...
Time: 1910s, year 1989
Place: cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly Hills, allegedly for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: courtroom, murder, family problems, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, courtroom drama, legal, life is a bitch, false accusation, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Boys Are Back (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his ...
Style: touching, inspirational, melancholic, sentimental, intense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, single father, family drama, cancer, family relations, father son relationship, depression, life philosophy, brothers, overcoming, widower, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, australia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Lost Years (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Bart, a young film student slowly loses his mind while studying at the film academy. Based on a true story.
Plot: hallucination, student, schizophrenia, hearing voices, psychosis, director, drug
Place: amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Wild Duck (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen
Style: realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: family relations, couples, society, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, high society, male female relationship, duck, mental illness, tragedy ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Hail, Hero! (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual procedure in late-1960s films, Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, generation gap, coming of age, dysfunctional family, cooking, military enlistment, college dropout, cowboy, ranch, college student, u.s. senator, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1969
Place: arizona, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Home Song Stories (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose mother Rose was a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer. When Rose meets Aussie sailor Bill, they are quickly married, and she packs up Tom and his older ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, intercultural ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: interracial marriage, mother's boyfriend, childhood, cultural difference, lifestyle, family problems, family relations, human nature, single parent, love and romance, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: australia, asia, china, melbourne, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Marijuana Conspiracy (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.
Style: independent film, period piece, psychedelic, psychological
Plot: human experiment, female protagonist, female friendship, lgbt history, anti conformist, alone in the world, women, interracial relations, eccentricity, captivity, psychiatric hospital, ptsd ...
Time: 70s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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