Movies like Why is the Sky Blue?

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Why is the Sky Blue? (1981)
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Why is the Sky Blue? (1981)
Original name: Bakit Bughaw ang Langit?
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Story: Babette Gomez (Nora Aunor) and her family just moved to the city. Meeting the neighbors, a man instantly hooked her. She is insterested. Only then that she discovered that he's mentally ill. He is being chained by his family.
Plot: love, basketball, pregnancy, truck, sex maniac, neighbor, new house, respect, rape victim, sibling relationship, sleepwalking, mahjong, new neighbor, sister sister relationship, boyfriend, domineering mother, mental retardation, siblings, chain, lollipop, cactus, apartment, spanking, courtyard, curtain ...
Keyword: filipino

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Most similar movies to Why is the Sky Blue?

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, touching and serious films with plots about pregnancy, love, female nudity, family relations, apartment, sister sister relationship and neighbor mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Why is the Sky Blue?: Bona (1980), The Real Life of Pacita M. (1991), Night and Day (1991), Cohabitation (1975), Next to Her (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bona (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A scorned teenager gets revenge on the aging gigolo who took advantage of her while pursuing other women.
Style: independent film
Plot: love, movie actor, revenge, fan, shooting, gigolo, obsessed fan, water, slum, bathtub, taking a bath
Place: manila philippines, the philippines
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95%
The Real Life of Pacita M. (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A mother attempts to pull the plug of her comatose daughter and as a result, she is being sued by her aristocratic mother-in-law.
Style: entertaining, soap opera
Plot: patricide, shopping, doctor, friend, mother daughter relationship, chase, death of daughter, monologue, courtroom, jazz, humiliation, singer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Night and Day (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with ...
Plot: love, taxi driver, cat, taxi, male nudity, neighbor, female nudity, love triangle, job, apartment, taxi ride
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Cohabitation (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Shaw production
Plot: aspiring writer, faithfulness, pregnancy, premarital sex, rich girl, sexual harassment, youth, abortion, coming of age, love, apartment
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Next to Her (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Rachel, 27, is raising her mentally retarded sister Gabby, 24, all by herself. When the social worker finds out she leaves her sister alone in the house while at work, she is forced to place her in a day-care center. For the first time in her life ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy, weird
Plot: mentally challenged, destructive relationship, fall in love, love and romance, family relations, family problems, sister sister relationship, love, threesome, israeli, illness, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 252
Lola (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The film is a French-Spanish production and most of the dialog is in French. 'Lo que se de Lola' - in English 'What I know about Lola' - is about a lonely guy, living an uneventful life in Paris. He takes care of his mother. One ...
Plot: love, narration, female pubic hair, girl, coma, subway, loss of mother, impossible love, loneliness, female nudity, voyeurism, elevator ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Virgin People (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three sisters live in a paradise where men are metaphorically and literally serpents of temptation.
Style: crying
Plot: solitude, merchant, fall in love, morality, carriage, jewelry, mountain, unrequited love, man hits a woman, jungle, machete, hunting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Roxxxanne (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jay Aquitania stars as Marlon, a handsome but closeted gay student who collects cell-phone porn videos to impress his friends-especially tricycle driver, Jonas (Janvier Daily), to whom he's attracted. In his search for the ultimate sex video, ...
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, murder, nosy neighbor, scandal, neighbor, birthday, tenant, friendship, celebrity, sex tape, rent ...
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43%
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
What Matters Most (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Despite different backgrounds and disapproving parents, a working-class teen falls in love with the wealthy son of a prominent family in a small West Texas town.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: high school romance, love, father son relationship, childhood friend, domineering father, basketball, prom, high school, teen social issues, teenage pregnancy, small town, pregnancy ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Thy Womb (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Bajau midwife copes with the irony of her own infertility amid the deprivations of her gypsy community in Tawi-Tawi. A saga of island life stuck between the devil of passion and the deep blue sea of tradition.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, serious, touching
Plot: ocean, society, indigenous people, childless couple, midwife, surrogate mother, husband and wife, husband, infertility, wife
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Trap (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of the rebuilding of their lives by the survivors of the disaster caused by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, particularly focusing on the struggles of a mother who lost their children.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, weird
Plot: typhoon, survivor, life is a bitch, social problems, society, social issues, hospital, crucifix, fire, loss of child, death, catastrophe ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lola controls her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profits in her job as a business consultant. But when a tragic event forces the past back into her life, Lola's grip on reality seems to slips away.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, mental illness, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, relationship vs career, family problems, disturbed individual, sisters, mentally unstable, mentally unstable woman, lgbtq ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Way Back Home (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jessica Santiago & Ana Bartolome are two sisters who have lived in separate lives for 12 long years. Jessie, though an excellent student, has grown to feel sorrow of Ana’s lost while Ana, not knowing that she’s an orphan, grew up in a ...
Style: touching, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: siblings, sister sister relationship, missing person, long lost daughter, sibling rivalry, fisherman, missing sister, fishing village, mother daughter relationship, jealousy, young adult, dog ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The August Virgin (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, ...
Plot: summer, women, sex scene, female nudity, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, dancing, museum, female protagonist, baby, pregnant woman, river ...
Time: 2010s
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Glass Menagerie (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment ...
Plot: sibling relationship, theatre play, dysfunctional family, absent parent, domineering mother, merchant marine, family relations, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Amir (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Amir, a young musician retired from the scene, must face a tough decision: To stay by Ely's side, his girlfriend, during an unwanted pregnancy or Jeanette, cute lead singer of a band that will restore not only his passion for music, also for ...
Style: independent film
Plot: female nudity, love, pregnancy, love affair, male female relationship, sexual relations, family relations, love and romance, young love, couple relations, sex scene, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Mano Po (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly ...
Plot: immigrant, birthday, sister sister relationship, funeral, flashback, kidnapping, engagement, pregnancy, family business, rebellious daughter, patriarch, interracial romance ...
Time: year 1949
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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My Brother's Keeper (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two very different brothers: Gregor (32) and Pietschi (30). Whereas one is reliable and committed, the other is spontaneous and aimless. Gregor is married and is a good doctor; Pietschi in contrast is something of a ladies’ man and a hedonist. ...
Style: captivating
Plot: sibling relationship, siblings, lifestyle change, brother brother relationship, personality change, character change, love and romance, problem solving, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, lifestyle, life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Angela's Decision (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Living in the middle of Australia's desolate landscape, Angela has been waiting all her life. Waiting for her boyfriend to return from the army and marry her, waiting for her mother to sober up, waiting for her life to begin. On the return of ...
Style: social
Plot: hopes, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, small town, friend, mother daughter relationship, army, pregnancy
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31%
The Sound and the Fury (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, southern gothic, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, downfall, family problems, family in crisis, life is a bitch, family life, siblings, mental retardation, suicide ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: mississippi, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Pau and His Brother (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A death in the family brings a man back to his family and his hometown in this drama. After his brother Alex goes missing under hazy circumstances, Pau gets the bad news that Alex has died after a successful suicide attempt. Pau travels to the ...
Style: captivating
Plot: siblings, social problems, tragic event, suicide, family relations, family tragedy, family problems, male nudity, male pubic hair, sibling relationship, public nudity, friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Hopefuls (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he ...
Style: psychological, touching, sexy, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pregnancy, teenage protagonist, football player, domineering mother, bossy woman, pregnant woman, football, jealousy, teenager, friend, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Passion Fever (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min.
Story: This and The Hot Month of August, both made in Greece, were acquired by DORIS WISHMAN for release in the United States. However, she somehow or other lost the dialogue sheets needed for dubbing the films into English. With the original dialogue a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: desertion, mistress, pregnancy, female nudity, seduction, sex, neighbor, suicide, exploitation, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
There Was a Little Boy (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Julie and Gregg are about to become parents again, but they feel conflicted since their first child was kidnapped and never seen again. But the couple soon faces an even bigger shock. Julie's new bad-boy (really bad-boy) student may actually be ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teacher student relationship, baby boy, poverty, homeless, stealing, english teacher, baby, teacher, priest, teenager, kidnapping, abduction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Moment of Truth: A Child Too Many (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Patty Nowakowski already has three children, but decides to be a surrogate mother. Fully confident of being able to give up her baby, she is nonetheless stunned when she discovers that she is expecting twins, and the couple for whom she is pregnant ...
Plot: pregnancy, twins, parents, dilemma, love, surrogate mother, court case, childless couple, trial, pregnant woman, childbirth, child custody ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Fatal Beauty (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Trevor and Michelle live an average life in the suburbs. When new neighbors move in, however, they find their world turned upside down, and their neighborhood into a place of chaos and shame.
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: lifestyle change, new neighbor, male female relationship, relationships, changing lives, family relations, nosy neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, husband wife relationship, neighbor, relationship problems, seduction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Latitude Zero (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman ...
Plot: desolation, pregnancy, business, truck, money, rage, alcohol, bar, rifle
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Harry's Daughters (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: About two sisters, Marie and Ninni, both are pregnant for the first time. After conducting a joint survey, Ninni's child is found dead.
Plot: husband, night, father daughter relationship, baby, sister sister relationship, female protagonist, miscarriage, childbirth, insanity, pregnancy, breast feeding
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Zooey & Adam (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Adam and Zooey have been trying to have a baby for several months, only to end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have the baby anyway.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, sexy, experimental
Plot: pregnant from rape, rape, pregnancy, trying to get pregnant, pregnant wife, sex, moral dilemma, wanting a baby, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, couples, parenthood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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