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The Girls of Nowolipki (1986)
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Original name: Dziewczęta z Nowolipek
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, period drama, nostalgic
Plot:
friendship, poverty, female friendship, grownups, girl, adolescence, coming of age, loss of innocence, urban, working class, neighborhood, community, class struggle, social realism, slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, daily life, high school life, gender roles, youth culture, first love, murder, jealousy, suicide ...
Time:
1910s, turn of the century
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and romantic drama films with plots about coming of age, slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, friendship, urban and social realism mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Girls of Nowolipki: The Apple Tree of Paradise (1986), What the Sun Has Seen (2006), Gantumoote (2019), Girls' Generation 1979 (2017), Baby (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
Style:
reflective, melancholic
Plot:
grownups, adolescence, coming of age, friendship, self discovery, personal growth, youth, female friendship, female bonding, loss of innocence, relationships, life lesson ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style:
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Plot:
poverty, small town, unemployment, working class, struggle, social realism, everyday life, child protagonist, dream, empathy, aspiration, slice of life ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A 16-year-old girl embarks on a journey of life where she deals with understanding herself, the changing world, bullying, academic pressure and her transcending journey of first love.
Style:
realistic, emotional, art house, melancholic, tragic ending ...
Plot:
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Place:
kannada
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Story is set in Daegu, South Korea during the 1970's. Lee Jung-Hee is in the 2nd grade of high school. She has a bright personality and is the second daughter of a family who runs a toy factory. She and her friends go through adolescence.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, retro ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, high school life, social issues, high school, teenager, teenage life, girlhood, grownups, friendship, female friendship, teenage girl ...
Time:
70s
Place:
south korea, korea
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A pair of high school sweethearts face challenges in their relationship when they take different directions in life.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, young love, young adult, high school, first love, bittersweet, nostalgia, slice of life, teen angst, breakup, heartbreak, longing ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Sara and Ali have been close friends since childhood, and together, they face many different situations and problems with their friends and families, but some changes suddenly occur in their relationship.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, heartfelt, intense, tear jerker
Plot:
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31%
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:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
grownups, family drama, life lesson, coming of age, child protagonist, family bonds, working class, resilience, character study, poverty, intergenerational friendship, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's a simple love story. Antonio likes Claudie. But Claudie is not so simple ... Claudie is a young woman who stumbles into reality. Little by little, we discover the life of her and those around her. Her friends, her family, her past ... And ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, contemplative, realistic, poignant ...
Plot:
love story, self discovery, intimate, everyday life, coming of age, slice of life, intimacy, personal growth, friendship, male protagonist, bittersweet, identity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, first love, young love, youth culture, rugby, personal growth, character study, friendship, identity, peer pressure, hopes ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A nostalgic, coming-of-age story of identical twin sisters who share every aspect of their lives with one another, until one day a boy walks into their lives and puts their strong bond to the test.
Style:
semi serious, thrilling, captivating, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
twin sister, twins, coming of age, love triangle, sisterhood, family relations, relationships, male female relationship, grownups, relationship problems, sister sister relationship, sister ...
Place:
southeast asia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Five women, Anikha, Isha, Gauri, Kullante and Aami, undergo life-changing experiences with regard to love.
Style:
anthology, emotional, poignant, sensitive, realistic ...
Plot:
love, slice of life, character study, bittersweet, everyday life, intimacy, urban, longing, social realism, hopes, desire, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, hospital, innocence, coming of age, first love, compassion, empathy, adolescence, paralysis, recovery, bittersweet, summer ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Paulina, a trainee social worker doing her internship in a reintegration center, meets Manuel, with whom she starts a friendship that promps her to question her vocation and begin a 'second adolescence', this time free from the tyranny of ...
Style:
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Plot:
friendship, social work, loss of innocence, social realism, social inequality, empathy, real world, coming of age, poverty, social commentary, youth, female protagonist ...
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26%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, stylized, uplifting, intense, historical drama ...
Plot:
ambition, rags to riches, oil field, oil, love, human relationship, loneliness, unlikely friendships, storytelling, wisdom of life, life philosophy, justice ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
texas
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Burkina Faso, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
friendship, female friendship, independence, road trip, female empowerment, travel, social realism, courage, solidarity, resilience, gender roles, everyday life ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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23%
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
23%
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
On the south shore of Long Island in the summer of 1982, a group of working-class teenagers and 20-somethings work their summer jobs, fall in and out of love, and wrestle with what the future holds when the summer ends and the real world beckons.
Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
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Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Occupied by family problems, a 13 year old Vojto takes every responsibility around the house. One day while on a train to school, he sees this girl, Kajka, and falls madly in love with her. Despite his busy life, he decides to win her heart by any ...
Style:
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