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Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young mother is accused of convincing four teenagers to murder her husband, who she claims abused her during their ten-year relationship.
Style:
touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love, age difference, domestic violence, true crime, marital abuse, prison, teenage love, pedophile, women's prison, fishing, betrayal, seduction, teenage girl, lsd, abortion, housewife, drug use, pregnant woman, abusive husband, new year's eve, van, misogyny, courtroom, murder trial, 16 year old ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pennsylvania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sexy films with plots about love, biopic, bare chested male, couples, love and romance, couple relations and teenager mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg: If Someone Had Known (1995), Cheerleader (2016), Abzurdah (2015), The Color of Time (2012), The Other Side of the Mountain (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young wife and mother is abused by her husband and keeps the secret from her friends and family.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, emotional, detective
Plot:
abusive husband, abusive relationship, murder, marital abuse, young mother, dead man, police arrest, husband wife relationship, teenage daughter, domestic violence, father dislikes daughter's boyfriend, physical abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Cheerleader dives into the mind of a teenager as she tries desperately to win her boyfriend back.
Style:
sentimental, suspense, suspenseful, touching, independent film
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
cheerleader, breakup, friendship, high school, teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, revenge, jealousy, friendship between boys, friendship between girls, teenage love, sex ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
Style:
touching, melancholic, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex, anorexia, fall in love, teenage protagonist, love, older man teenage girl relationship, obsessive love, older man younger woman relationship, biopic, internet culture, sex with a minor, eating disorder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina
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68%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The film is based on the story of William of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton. Shown in the same life of William of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton met at the University of Saint Andrews, besides the romance that they maintained, the break of it ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, disturbing
Plot:
royal family, heir to the throne, love, love and romance, private vs public, young couple, couple relations, fall in love, social differences, couples, paparazzi, british monarchy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, europe, house of windsor
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, flashback, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, detroit
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62%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A female skiing champion is paralyzed in a tragic skiing accident. Her girlfriend is taken out of competition when she contracts polio.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot:
quadriplegic, disability, skiing, physical disability, love, winter olympics, polio, accident, illness, psychopath, grief, paralysis ...
Time:
70s, 1950s, year 1975, 50s
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of teenagers at Gloucester (Mass.) High School who agreed to get pregnant at the same time.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, captivating, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, motherhood, high school, teenager, mother daughter relationship, investigation, social relations, journalism, society, teenage life, teenage pregnancy, pregnant teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, sexual, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay teenager, homosexuality, suicide, homosexual, gay love, gay rights, lgbt teen, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, religious intolerance ...
Time:
2000s, year 1984, year 1979, 21st century
Place:
usa, ethiopia, san francisco, california, portland oregon
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style:
touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
genius, disability, love, cambridge university, physicist, mathematics, husband wife relationship, prodigy, supportive spouse, handicapped, against the odds, relationships ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
oxford university, england, united kingdom
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of one of America's first female reporters.
Plot:
drug, television, accident, drug addict, drug addiction, fame, newscaster, miscarriage, accidental death, pregnancy, suicide, cocaine ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, physical disability, quadriplegic, love, grief, paralysis, fall in love, human spirit, love and romance, hopes, misfit, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, light, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, chef, women, food, self fulfillment, couple relations, love, blogger, blog, relationships, cookbook ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 2000s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style:
realistic, touching, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, friendship, rural setting, backwoods, suburbs, art, deep south, poet, past, romantic relationship, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style:
period piece, touching, emotional, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
writers, destiny, biopic, love story, friendship, mental disorder, bittersweet, couples, hospital, small town, loneliness, love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, year 1933, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new mexico, texas, ireland
Similarity:
47%
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, sentimental, touching, romantic comedy
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, new love, love, old friend, best friend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, crush, teenage boy, love and romance, friendship between teens, girlfriend boyfriend relationship, teenage life ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, couples, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, on the run, youth, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
movie star, hollywood, forbidden love, sexual abuse, womanizer, actor's life, love affair, love and romance, youth, life is a bitch, showbiz, teenage life ...
Time:
year 1960, 50s, 20th century, year 2010, year 1959 ...
Place:
cuba, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the ...
Style:
non fiction, serious, realistic, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot:
abusive husband, domestic violence, woman in danger, marital abuse, abusive relationship, feminism, strong female presence, society, legal action, fighting the system, life is a bitch, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
William & Kate is the first of two unrelated American television films about the relationship between Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton (now The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge), directed by Mark Rosman and written by ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, romantic, uplifting
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, royalty, british royal family, young love, fall in love, royal court, young couple, love and romance, social differences, paparazzi, private vs public, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
united kingdom, europe, africa, england
Similarity:
45%
54K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, ...
Style:
erotic, melancholic, psychological, sexy, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
lesbian, fashion, addiction, aids, drug abuse, drug addiction, lgbtq, supermodel, model, lgbt, heroin, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
45%
38K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Style:
romantic, inspirational, melancholic, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
interracial couple, racism, marriage, interracial marriage, interracial love, interracial romance, husband wife relationship, supreme court, civil rights, love story, forbidden love, miscegenation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s, year 2016, 2010s ...
Place:
virginia, washington d.c., richmond virginia, usa, australia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
actor's life, couples, hollywood, couple relations, renewed love, paparazzi, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, infidelity, actress, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.
Style:
touching, romantic, sexy, sexual, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, marooned, true love, love and romance, island, stranded, teenage life, high school student, lost at sea, tropical island, youth, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, gothic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
writers, art, poet, drug use, napoleonic era, literary, women, acid, strength, couples, artists and showbiz, mad scientist ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1810s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style:
depressing, disturbing, compassionate, factual, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, hollywood, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, lobotomy, courtroom, domineering mother, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 1958 ...
Place:
california, usa, seattle, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on a true story from 1910, this tells the story of a young man who is hidden in an attic by his older lover.
Style:
sexy, sexual, serious, realistic
Plot:
older woman younger man sex, obsession, love and romance, youth, overprotective mother, attic, love, couples, family problems, dishonesty, femme fatale, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, captivating, melancholic, neo noir ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, doctor, terminal illness, breast cancer, dying, femme fatale, promise, lie, mother daughter relationship, actress, life is a bitch, love ...
Time:
year 1979, year 2017, 70s, year 1981, 80s
Place:
liverpool, los angeles, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.
Style:
erotic, explicit
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, married man, older man younger woman relationship, prison, adultery, forbidden love, older man young girl relationship, female nudity, butt, girl man relationship ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.
Style:
depressing, realistic, emotional, factual, compassionate ...
Plot:
court, death penalty, lawyer, trial, justice, death sentence, arson, true crime, fighting the system, false accusation, hopes, prison ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship.
Style:
romantic, sexy, emotional, light, saga ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama ...
Plot:
love, teen romance, college, opposites attract, teenage love, fall in love, youth, teenager, high school hunk, sexual relations, teenage boy, couples ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
37%
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