Movies like Secrets 1983

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Secrets (1983)
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Secrets (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An enjoyable story of a 13-year-old girl, Louise, who lives alone with her widowed mother. Louise is sent off to a boarding school, but not before she discovers some secret documents kept hidden by her father. A curious look reveals that her father was a member of the secret order of Freemasons. When she finally gets to school, she tries to explain to her friends what the Freemasons are. Later, Louise's mother discovers a box of condoms in her daughter's room and wrongly presumes that the girl is sexually active.
Style: independent film
Plot: friendship, boarding school, coming of age, first love, freemason, teenage girl, communist, balloon, male female relationship, family secret, widow, synchronized swimming, locked in a basement, false accusation, death of father, death of husband, secret, friend, comedy of errors, intruder, freemasonry, school, death, mother, hypnosis ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 1960s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about friendship, love, coming of age, teenage girl, family relations, friend and teenager mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Secrets: Tanner Hall (2009), Sentimental Romance (1976), Anderson's Cross (2010), Miss You Already (2015), Holiday (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tanner Hall (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, independent film, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, teenage girl, friendship, girls' boarding school, nymphet, youth, lesbian, friends, power relations, social relations, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
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95%
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around ...
Style: touching, teen, feel good, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: school, high school, coming of age, teenage life, youth, teenage love, couples, love and romance, parents and children, high school life, teenager, puberty ...
Time: 2000s
Place: england, brighton, europe, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Sentimental Romance (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Near the close of the Russian Civil War, in 1923, a young man begins studying journalism at a worker newspaper and has a series of romantic adventures which cause him to mature swiftly. He rescues a beautiful girl from an abusive family situation, ...
Plot: journalist, death of father, widow, innocence, love triangle, teenage boy, newspaper, irony, love, death, teenage girl, friendship ...
Time: 1920s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Anderson's Cross (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Nick Anderson, Kevin Daniels, and Tracey Green do everything together. They are the best of friends, and yet they couldn't be more different. Neighbors from adolescence, they finish each other's thoughts and sentences, joys and pains, ...
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: bullying, gay, coming of age, friendship, teenage boy, first love, dysfunctional family, parent child relationship, gay teenager, first sexual experience, college, teenage girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Miss You Already (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Style: touching, semi serious, sad, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, friendship, dying, terminal illness, illness, best friend, pregnancy, life turned upside down, love, relationships, unfulfillment, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: yorkshire, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Holiday (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "where i see myself in 10 years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.
Plot: male female relationship, family relations, family reunited, rocket, death of wife, death of mother, capitalist, older man younger woman relationship, patriarch, working class, debate, letter ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Beautiful Thing (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of Thamesmead, in south-east London, become aware of their homosexuality. While both were vaguely aware they might be gay, neither had ever acted on their impulses. Once they decide ...
Style: touching, sweet, romantic, lgbt cinema, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, homosexuality, coming of age, gay teenager, lgbt, lgbt teen, homosexual, gay love, teenage love, friendship, teenager, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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67%
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Submarine (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar ...
Style: visually appealing, witty, surreal, touching, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, virginity, high school, school, teenager, teenage love, high school life, youth, teen angst, social relations, loss of virginity ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 80s, 20th century
Place: wales, england, britain
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64%
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S.W.A.L.K. (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.
Style: teen, offbeat, cult classic, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: coming of age, young love, first love, youth, school, child, amusement park, parents, teacher, love, love story, surrealism ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Skipped Parts (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, sex, virginity, friendship, high school, sexual awakening, single parent, youth, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, parents and children ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 90s
Place: wyoming, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Sweetheart (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A socially awkward, environmentally-conscious teenager named AJ is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully 'normal' family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla.
Style: romantic, captivating, entertaining, light, funny ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian love, teenager, coming of age, teenage love, couple relations, love and romance, in love, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Bad Behaviour (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When ...
Style: independent film
Plot: panic, comic book, unfaithfulness, babysitter, menopause, writers, male female relationship, moving, movie studio, family relations, improv, twins ...
Time: year 1993
Place: london, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
How Not to Disappear Completely (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story: 'How Not To Disappear Completely' follows a week in the life of a young photographer Tom as he returns to London after spending two years traveling in India. Tom is at a crossroads in his life. A stranger in the cold hard city, he ...
Style: sincere, melancholic, psychological, touching
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, secret, grownups, commitment, father daughter relationship, love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, death of father, friendship, fear, friend ...
Place: london, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Wackness (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, ...
Style: realistic, touching, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: marijuana, coming of age, hip hop, misfit, dysfunctional family, first love, depression, high school, friendship, weed, drug, stoner ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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53%
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Mermaids (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old ...
Style: touching, sweet, teen, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, kids, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, single mother, teenager, love story, mother daughter relationship, young adult, father daughter relationship, loneliness, single parent, mother, fall in love ...
Time: 60s, 90s, year 1963, year 1964, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts, texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Touch of Pink (2004)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit.
Style: feel good, entertaining, romantic, intense, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, family relations, society, parents and children, gay club, gay love, lifestyle, happy ending ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: london, toronto ontario canada, united kingdom, europe, england ...
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52%
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Now and Then (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style: feel good, emotional, touching, teen, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, women, female friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, childhood, youth, teenager, teenage life, children, friends ...
Time: 90s, 70s, year 1991, year 1970, year 1995 ...
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Licorice Pizza (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, the film follows a high school student who is also a successful child actor.
Style: period piece, captivating, comedy drama, teen, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, actor, first love, teenage boy, jealousy, closeted homosexual, political campaign, age difference, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, friendship, wrongful arrest ...
Time: year 1973, 2020s, 70s, year 1939, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, pasadena california, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: wedding, lovers reunited, bride and groom, unrequited love, under the surface, love and romance, introspection, family problems, parents and children, love triangle, ex lover, marriage ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1932
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.
Style: disturbing, satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, bipolar disorder, party, autism, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, relationships, teenage girl, social problems, male female relationship, satire, lifestyle ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new jersey
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46%
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, entertaining, sweet, intense ...
Plot: family drama, honest, dysfunctional family, love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, starting over, parents and children, family life, couples, human nature, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2002
Place: england, europe, glasgow scotland
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45%
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Agnes Browne (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself.
Style: emotional, sentimental, humorous, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot: poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, happy ending, single father, best friend, childhood ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 60s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.5
 4K
Summer '03 (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.
Style: light, humorous, romantic, teen, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, youth, summer, school, couples, love, love and romance, teenager, coming of age, girl, relationships ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Gregory's Girl (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his schoolfriends are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got into the football team - and is a better player than him. He finally asks her out, but it ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, independent film, comedy drama, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, soccer, high school, teenager, football, unrequited love, love, teenage love, friendship between boys, coach, brother sister relationship, sexual awakening ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, year 1980, 70s
Place: scotland, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.5
 15K
Get Real (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
Style: sentimental, touching, teen, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, coming of age, teenage life, high school, gender, gay slur, gay teenager, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, youth, gays and lesbians, gay relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and makes whoever wears them feel fabulous. When faced with the prospect of spending their first ...
Style: romantic, feel good, teen, touching, cute ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first love, friendship, teenager, summer, female friendship, teenage love, teen romance, group of friends, relationships, love story ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: greece, south carolina, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Morris from America (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.
Style: light, humorous, talky, romantic, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, coming of age, teenager, african american, rap, culture clash, language barrier, black, puberty, teenage boy, 13 year old, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Australia, Greece
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. While the reluctant Manos is tutored in the art of revenge by old friend Stephanos, he also attempts to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: vengeance, twins, murder, teacher, vigilantism, rivalry, couples, family relations, couple relations, old friend, fascism, vendetta ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 2000s, year 1943
Place: australia, melbourne, crete, hellas, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 6K
Flirting (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic ...
Style: realistic, touching, romantic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, friendship, interracial relations, high school, bullying, male nudity, love, teenage life, male pubic hair, teenage love, character study ...
Time: 60s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1965
Place: australia, uganda, paris france, kenya, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 7K
Deep End (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent ...
Style: psychosexual thriller, offbeat, controversial, artsy, serious ...
Audience: teen fantasy
Plot: coming of age, male nudity, swimming, unrequited love, female orgasm, male pubic hair, surrealism, teenage boy, obsession, love, swing, erotica ...
Time: year 1970, 20th century, 60s
Place: london, eastern europe, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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