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Life Doesn't Scare Me (1999)
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Original name: La vie ne me fait pas peur
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
Style:
emotional, realistic, reflective, melancholic, independent film, period drama, nostalgic, cult film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
grownups, friendship, adolescence, coming of age, teenager, youth, female friendship, personal growth, self discovery, slice of life, everyday life, realism, identity, intimate, love, first love, bittersweet, teenage girl, community, urban, parent child relationship, small town, father daughter relationship, mental illness, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s, 1990s
Place:
paris france
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Most similar movies to Life Doesn't Scare Me
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, emotional, melancholic and reflective films with plots about slice of life, coming of age, self discovery, bittersweet, friendship, intimate and identity mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Life Doesn't Scare Me: Drops in Your Hand (2014), Pizza Palace (2004), Cotton Candy (1978), The 11th Grade (2015), Saba Nayagan (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly why, but Ann becomes absent from ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, emotional, reflective
Plot:
teenager, friendship, youth, coming of age, adolescence, grownups, teen angst, high school, self discovery, personal growth, high school life, nostalgia ...
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Teenager struggles with his family roots and his own identity.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
identity, coming of age, teenager, identity crisis, self discovery, adolescence, family drama, youth, self acceptance, parent child relationship, personal growth, small town ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
1970's made-for-TV movies about high school teens embroiled in rock band drama have formed a sub-genre that holds immeasurable hypnotic powers over a lot of my generation. Worn copies of these types of movies are often traded amongst fans like ...
Style:
feel good, retro, period piece, lighthearted
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, battle of the bands, friendship, underdog, coming of age, high school friends, rock band, rivalry, youth culture, live performance, self discovery, competition ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
XI "A" follows the story of Lina - a former dancer, who goes in for her dream job, namely to become a literature teacher.
Style:
educational, realistic, reflective, inspirational, uplifting
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
adolescence, intimate, slice of life, personal growth, literature, second chance, coming of age, female protagonist, youth culture, bittersweet, female empowerment, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
This coming-of-age drama follows Saba, the happy-go-lucky protagonist, through the years leading up to his adulthood and highlighting events of friendship and romance along the way.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, realistic, melancholic, sentimental
Plot:
grownups, coming of age, youth, relationships, adolescence, personal growth, friendship, heartbreak, self discovery, male protagonist, bittersweet, nostalgia ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Having outgrown her role, a pampered child actor returns to her family and tries to be an ordinary youngster.
Style:
heartfelt, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, grownups, personal growth, family drama, identity, maturation, self discovery, getting home, domestic drama, identity crisis, acceptance, adaptation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Italian movie by Max Nardari starring Mohamed Zouaoui, Michela Andreozzi
Style:
independent film, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, art house ...
Plot:
realism, social issues, social realism, resilience, identity, relationships, personal growth, intimate, slice of life, everyday life, disability, coming of age ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man in his mid 30's reevaluates his life and priorities after he met someone from his past.
Style:
captivating, feel good, semi serious, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, lifestyle change, changing lives, middle aged, introspection, satire, middle aged man, male protagonist, midlife crisis, personal growth, character study ...
Place:
paris france
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59%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
In the form of an anthology film, travelers and hosts encounter one another in four different places in Europe via an internet-based hosting network called “Couchsurfing”. In Stuttgart, the Swabian publisher Annette meets the Polish master in ...
Style:
reflective, anthology, intercultural, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
travel, self discovery, personal growth, slice of life, coming of age, bittersweet, youth, intimate, language barrier, minimalism, social commentary
Place:
paris france, europe, spain
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Janus is a young high school student who dreams of leaving his native countryside ravaged by isolation and alcoholism. His daily life changes the day he discovers an artisanal distillery hidden in his grandfather's cellar.
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
dream, student, alcoholism, coping, teenager, changing lives, satire, adolescence, lifestyle change, teenage life, teenage protagonist, youth ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Damien Nadeau-Daneau, a young filmaker, is unable to finish a movie he started with french actor Denis Lavant. Indebted, he’s working at a post-production company, far from his artistic ideals. On the eve of his 33rd birthday, he is self-centered, ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
filmmaking, filmmaker, satire, film producer, slice of life, realism, self discovery, identity, everyday life, intimate, midlife crisis, alienation ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A coming of age story, in flashback, of a group of high school students graduating in 2011. Each will take a different path from here on.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, youth, coming of age, grownups, graduation, friendship, flashback, self discovery, nostalgia, bittersweet, identity, classmate ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After losing her job at a cutting-edge fashion magazine, Marta finds herself forced to abandon the cool, hip world she has always aspired to be a part of and return to the working class neighbourhood she grew up in, where she reunites with her old ...
Style:
realistic, social
Plot:
female friendship, getting home, personal growth, working class, photography, coming of age, self discovery, identity, slice of life, nostalgia, intimate, forgiveness ...
Place:
barcelona, catalonia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Gokul’s financial reach far exceeds his reality, but juggling unpayable loans and dodging debt collectors, he tries his best to provide for his pampered son, Anbu. With his mother away on business, Anbu persuades his father to go on a motorcycle ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
family drama, road trip, father son relationship, character study, bonding, parenting, everyday life, coming of age, indian family, personal growth, intimate, slice of life ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rodrigo and Rocco join their families to hold a birthday party for their grandfather. Rodrigo is a regular middle-class teenager, while Rocco is rather more unconventional, indie magazine writer, and has deep conflicts with his father.
Style:
emotional, semi serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
self discovery, youth, bittersweet, on the road, elderly, family relations, human nature, hotel, innocence lost, road trip, coming of age, grief ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
40%
102
Genre: Comedy
Country: Estonia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three male friends decide to travel to Harakasa, a city far from Tallinn because Veikko needs to solve a problem there.
Style:
realistic, road movie, reflective, comedy drama, emotional ...
Plot:
male friendship, travel, journey, male bonding, road trip, realism, everyday life, bittersweet, small town, self discovery, slice of life, coming of age
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jim is a 12-year-old outsider. One day Terje (an overweight boy who claims to own a pit bull) starts in his class. He considers Jim as his best friend, but the only friend Jim can get is the only friend he really doesn't want.
Style:
realistic, heartfelt, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
christmas, loneliness, outsider, childhood, coming of age, youth, friendship, adolescence, bullying, misfit, identity, self discovery ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1986, three sixteen year old friends spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams to see the latest comedy, each of the teens learn more about life ...
Style:
retro, sentimental, romantic, period piece, humorous ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, nostalgia, grownups, friendship, first date, teen romance, summer, first love, loss of innocence, bittersweet, slice of life, youth culture ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
The journey of three village boys who accidentally pass their degrees. Facing unexpected challenges, they leave their hamlet and venture into the city, searching for jobs and a purpose in life.
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, brotherhood, self discovery, aspiration, perseverance, personal growth, coming of age, youth, village life, social commentary, male bonding, unemployment ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A widowed housewife returns to college to complete her studies and embarks on a journey that gives her life new meaning.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
college, widow, education, personal growth, second chance, self discovery, male female relationship, humour, relationships, training, resilience, grief ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
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Story:
Five women and Paris. Five ways of being, crying, screaming and laughing, missing the bus, grinding teeth, enjoying, not enjoying, drinking too much, growing up, resisting, making a child or not, do not wanting to go home... Five ways to love. Five ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, captivating, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
women, christmas, everyday life, slice of life, satire, female protagonist, social satire, multiple storylines, bonding, lifestyle, identity, friendship ...
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
37%
331
Genre: Comedy
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A rich businessman moves to countryside to give his life a meaning.
Style:
reflective, emotional, realistic, sincere, melancholic
Plot:
midlife crisis, countryside, personal growth, redemption, self discovery, second chance, slice of life, family relations, small town life, humanism, nature, identity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
37%
2K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A teen tomboy has to choose between her best friends and the new boy in her life, but what happens when one of the dudes fall for her?
Style:
romantic comedy, humorous, funny, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, teen romance, tomboy, teenager, youth, coming of age, friends, love triangle, disorder, love and romance, parents and children, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A coming of age film for 40 year olds. Three middle-aged friends reunite to put on a play and find themselves again.
Style:
psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, self discovery, showbiz, character study, group of friends, lifestyle, middle aged, satire, adulthood, grownups, friends ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After her parents divorced, Shima Sumitomo lived with her mother. She felt uncomfortable living with her stepfather and she was unable to hang out with people at her high school. Shima Sumitomo decides to move to Hokkaido where her father lives. At ...
Style:
light, entertaining, funny, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school life, first love, teenage life, high school romance, japanese high school, love triangle, high school, teenager, love affair, love and romance, teenage love, relationships ...
Place:
hokkaido
Similarity:
34%
328
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three childhood friends support each other through life's ups and downs in this comedy/drama. Each goes through a difficult time in their life, and is "helped" by the others - always well-intentioned, but not always with the intended ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, comedy drama, feel good ...
Plot:
friends, friendship, disorder, fall in love, best friend, buddies, love and romance, adoption, male bonding, male friendship, relationships, loyalty ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Panama, Colombia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ana escapes from the hotel where she works dressed as a bride and decides that she must get married that same day. She must put everything together before she is caught by Lucia, the owner of the dress, or the police. On this journey Ana reflects on ...
Style:
romantic comedy, lighthearted, reflective, road movie, independent film ...
Plot:
fiancee, wedding, personal growth, self discovery, escape, introspection, identity, friendship, pursuit, female empowerment, chase, commitment ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An emotionally stunted aunt tries to bond with her thirteen year old niece, who wants nothing more than to run away from home and become a juggalo.
Style:
realistic, captivating, humorous, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage girl, bullying, babysitting, family relations, life turned upside down, family problems, bonding, intimate, adolescence, slice of life, bittersweet, identity ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
heartfelt, romantic drama, emotional, realistic, pastoral ...
Plot:
village life, friendship, slice of life, personal growth, young love, self discovery, youth, small town, first love, coming of age, heartwarming, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The movie revolves around the lives of eight friends and their journey of growing up while they face the highs and lows of their relationships, love and romance, the end of their college days and the beginning of a new life.
Style:
gujarati, romantic comedy, light hearted, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, college life, graduation, youth, relationships, college romance, young adult, campus, self discovery, first love, nostalgia ...
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