Movies like The Oyster and the Wind

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The Oyster and the Wind (1997)
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The Oyster and the Wind (1997)
Original name: A Ostra e o Vento
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them supplies. Daniel, who not only protects her from her dad's strictness but also teaches her how to be literate, is her source of tenderness. Her dad thinks she should be away from the world - though she wishes she could spend a few days in town. Then one day, as she has her first period and becomes a woman, she starts feeling sexuality through the blowing wind, which she talks to.
Style: romantic drama
Plot: teenage sexuality, teenager, sea, island, beach, lighthouse, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, coffee, insanity, little girl, night, wind, diary, coming of age, menstruation, loss of father, menarche

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, independent film and disturbing films with plots about coming of age, teenage girl, teenager, father daughter relationship, teenage life, female nudity and friendship mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Crime genres. Some movies like The Oyster and the Wind: Adrift (2009), Blaze (2022), The Wasting (2017), Virgins (2018), Barndommens gade (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Adrift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, touching, teen ...
Plot: infidelity, beach house, coming of age, teenage sexuality, father daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, parent child relationship, family problems, dishonesty, love, youth ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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95%
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Blaze (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.
Style: independent film
Plot: resistance, witness, surrealism, imaginary friend, rape, father daughter relationship, murder, family relations, courtroom, post traumatic stress disorder, menarche, friendship ...
Place: sydney australia
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The Wasting (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A teenager in an English town struggles to come of age, braving sexual awakening and fighting her controlling parents by refusing to eat...until a nightmarish ghost appears that may be real, or may be a deadly creation of her starving body.
Style: psychological thriller
Plot: anorexia, ghost, coming of age, nightmare, immigration, first love, sleep disorder, teenage girl, teenager, eating disorder, father daughter relationship, sexual awakening
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78%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Barndommens gade (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: I en lille 2-værelses baggårdslejlighed, på Vesterbro i København, bor den 14 årige Ester (Sofie Gråbøl) sammen med faderen (Torben Jensen), moderen (Vigga Bro) og storebroderen Carl (Carl Quist Møller). Det er tidens typiske arbejderkvarter ...
Style: period piece
Plot: working class, girl, mother daughter relationship, menstruation, menarche, prostitution, childhood, teenage girl, coming of age, grownups, family relations, slim ...
Time: 1930s
Place: copenhagen
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62%
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Murina (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Brazil, USA, Slovenia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: friend, teenage girl, family problems, grownups, teenager, relationship problems, control, parents and children, father, coming of age, woman, diving ...
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58%
Suburban Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 63 min.
Story: 16-vuotias Minna on kyllästynyt kiltin tytön elämään. Kaikki kaverit elävät Minnan mielestä vauhdikasta ja mielenkiintoista elämää, johon kuuluvat niin seurustelut kuin sekoilutkin. Päästäkseen kokemaan kaiken tämän saman Minna ...
Style: captivating
Plot: teenage sexuality, hitchhiker, virgin, teenager, virginity, friendship, sexuality, youth, teenage girl, road trip, girlfriend, escapades ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Nights Belong to Monsters (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sol, a 17-year-old teenager, moves with her mother to the Gonzalo's home, the actual mother's boyfriend. In this town, where from the beginning Sol only finds hostility, she must face bullying from her schoolmates and Gonzalo's ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: supernatural, owner dog relationship, teenage girl, teenager, social problems, small town life, life is a bitch, magical creature, teenage life, human dog relationship, magic
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Sacred Mound (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness ...
Plot: coming of age, wedding, fire, island, lighthouse, boy, first love, love, nudity, sex, sexual dysfunction, treasure ...
Place: iceland
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57%
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Petite Maman (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mother used to play and where she built the fort Nelly has ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, sincere, psychological, talky ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: friendship, forest, death of grandmother, magic realism, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, little girl, female bonding, female friendship, father daughter relationship, pyramid, grief ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
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56%
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Maramao (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood.
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, childhood, children, summer vacation, sexual awakening, island, grownups, skinny dipping, boy, teenage boy, girl ...
Place: mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until ...
Plot: christmas, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, jealousy, coming of age, grownups, teenage sexuality, new year's eve, friends, daughter, female nudity, friend ...
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55%
Before the Rooster Crows (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot: coming of age, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, living with parents, teenage life, family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, love interest ...
Place: puerto rico
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54%
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Creatura (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After moving in with her boyfriend, Mila becomes aware of her loss of desire.
Style: non-linear
Plot: female pubic hair, female exhibitionist, dancing, female protagonist, past, house, friend, nightclub, sex scene, woman, father daughter relationship, flashback ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
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53%
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Paperhouse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: nightmare, children, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, boy, visceral, transformation, serial killer, father daughter relationship, coming of age, supernatural ability, dream world ...
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Starry Starry Night (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: There was once a young girl named May who felt alienated from everyone around her. May is worried about her mother and father, whose marriage is on the rocks, and she yearns to return to the woods where her grandfather lives. One day, May befriends ...
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, visually appealing, sexy ...
Plot: parents and children, escape from reality, family relations, friends, family problems, friendship, imaginary, little girl, supernatural, child, teenager, asian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
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It Felt Like Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to ...
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Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, youth, obsession, self discovery, best friend, friendship, wooing, hot guys, teenager, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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51%
Strawberries Need Rain (1971)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: sex, nudity, loss of virginity, teenage girl, death, female nudity, young woman, teenager, virginity, flashback, tribute, metaphor ...
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51%
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Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies. Notwithstanding her healthy distrust of all ...
Style: erotic
Plot: mistreatment, stealing, cutting one's own hair, female fight, strangulation, theft, pilgrim, beach, rain, food, flashback, torture ...
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51%
That Special Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The year is 1984. It's summer, and the rebellious 12-year-old girl Kid wants to stay in Gothenburg, but her mother has other plans. Kid discovers that summer vacation in Finland isn't as bad as first feared. In a few hot weeks she ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage sexuality, teenage girl, sexual awakening, coming of age, summer vacation, family relations, relationships, couple relations, teenage life, teenage love, teenager, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1984, 80s
Place: finland
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50%
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Annalisa (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The friendship between two Southern Italy kids is tested by their meeting with a young girl who's attempted suicide after failing to get married. Based on the novel "Il paese delle spose infelici" (literally, "Village of the Sad ...
Plot: madness, suicidal thoughts, male masturbation, teenage boy, friendship, teenager, masturbation, football team, insanity, friendship between boys, coming of age, rumor ...
Place: italy
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49%
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Mandorla (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The only journey is the one within. Mandorla explores a man's search for a meaningful life despite conflicts between his inner and outer worlds. Ernesto is a visual artist and seeker stuck in a corporate job, who is drawn by dark magical ...
Style: experimental, spiritual
Plot: magic, family relations, knight, husband wife relationship, airport, taxi, cafe, bank, beach, imagination, father daughter relationship, bridge ...
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49%
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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 ...
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49%
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Good Luck (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does not have long to live is and they know it. This shall not prevent ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, weird
Plot: older woman younger man sex, first sexual experience, psychiatric patient, woman woman relationship, friendship, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, social problems, relationship problems, teenage love, mental illness, teenage girl ...
Place: rio de janeiro
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47%
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Last Summer (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, controversial, sexual, spooky ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: beach, friendship, rape, teenager, love, coming of age, friends, teenage sexuality, teenage love, female nudity, realism, relationships ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: long island
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46%
 6.4
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The Tempest (1979)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the ...
Style: avant garde, independent film, offbeat, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: shakespeare, chess, atonement, rock, island, nudity, male nudity, parents and children, isolation, royal family, destiny, love affair ...
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45%
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All the Way (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 15-year-old Solange lives in a little town in the French Alps. When her parents get divorced, she discovers her femininity and has her first sexual experiences.
Plot: teenage sexuality, coming of age, older man younger woman sex, hot and sexy, loss of virginity, sexual awakening, teenage girl, menarche, menstruation, separated parents, age-gap relationship, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france
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44%
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1st Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating
Plot: coming of age, youth, teenage love, teenage life, sexual awakening, family relations, parents and children, oral sex, bittersweet, teenage boy, teenage girl, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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41%
Children Metal Divers (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The heart-tugging story of children who scavenge for metal scraps in the murky waters of Manila Bay, often risking their lives in the process.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, muslim, children, beach, swimming, boy, missing person, mermaid, grandmother, port, boat, missing child ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
How to Have Sex (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, partying, coming of age, summer, party girl, clubbing, problem, grownups, teenager, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, drinking alcohol ...
Place: crete
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40%
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