Movies like Sweet 15

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Sweet 15 (1990)
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Sweet 15 (1990)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nothing is more important to Mexican-American Marta Delacruz than her quinceanera -- the traditional 15th birthday celebration that symbolically ushers a young girl into adulthood. Marta is understandably angry and resentful when her father cancels the gala event, but her outlook changes completely when she accidentally uncovers her father's secret: He never became a U.S. citizen.
Style: hispanic
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, gang, dancing, school, birthday, teenage girl, dream, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, mechanic, forgiveness, boss, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, immigration, husband wife relationship, waltz, friend, illegal immigrant, celebration, promotion, illegal immigration, amnesty, mexican american
Place: los angeles, california
Keyword: mexican, latin

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Most similar movies to Sweet 15

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, feel good and serious films with plots about coming of age, family relations, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, school, youth and friendship mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Sweet 15: Alternate Weeks (2009), Truth or Dare (1997), Echo Park LA (2006), Class Rank (2017), Only Clouds Move the Stars (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Alternate Weeks (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A 12 year old girl and her 8 year old brother live one week with their mother and the next week with their father. The girl blamers her mother, a super businesswoman for the divorce and turns all her anger on her. She prefers the weeks with her ...
Plot: love story, father daughter relationship, teenager, love, brother sister relationship, piano teacher, birthday party, coming of age, christmas, divorce, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: paris france
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95%
 5.2
 765
Truth or Dare (1997)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Summer holiday is over. Nora begins sixth grade and is drawn to intrigues and doesn't really know what side she's on. Or wants to be on. On one hand she feels sorry for the bullied Karin, one the other hand she wants to be friends with ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience: teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: teenage girl, bully, shoplifting, friend, female protagonist, coming of age, children, eating disorder, truth or dare, high school, bullying, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.9
 4K
Echo Park LA (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, gay, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, lgbt, religion, virginity, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, teenage life ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa, glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.5
 2K
Class Rank (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two high school misfits join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.
Style: light, humorous, feel good, entertaining, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, coming of age, school, teenage girl, love, teenage boy, friend, family relations, motivation, high school, politics, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Only Clouds Move the Stars (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Eleven year old Maria has lost her little brother to cancer. Having disappeared into herself, her mother is no longer there for Maria and her father struggles to keep the family together. Maria meets Jacob, who is the same age as she, but with a ...
Plot: boy girl relationship, children, mourning, sadness, cancer, grief, death of son, grandmother granddaughter relationship, death of brother, friendship, death, loss of brother ...
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68%
 7.3
 4K
My Family (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their family in ...
Style: touching, sad, thought provoking, independent film, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, chicano, family relations, father son relationship, prison, high school, gang, mafia, culture, transformation, urban, marriage ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The New Classmate (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she ...
Style: feel good, avant garde
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenager, coming of age, women, female empowerment, stealing money, teacher, education, single mother, servant, school, maid ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Jack of the Red Hearts (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.
Style: touching, compassionate, thought provoking, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, disability, brother sister relationship, mother son relationship, marriage, autism, mental illness, understanding, unlikely friendships, compassion, husband wife relationship, small town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Pass the Light (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Pass the Light tells the story of Steve Bellafiore, an 17 year old high school senior who decides to run for Congress in order to protect the faith that he so loves.
Style: serious, feel good, uplifting, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: against the odds, ambition, rivalry, teenage life, idealism, campaign, parents and children, youth, society, high school, teenage girl, college ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 4.8
 297
Gigantic (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: A half-hour dramedy that takes a fictional look at the glitzy, chaotic and often hilarious life of being a Hollywood "it" kid. Set in the world of the Hollywood elite packed with A-list parties and privilege, it tells a coming-of-age story ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, hollywood, celebrity, coming of age, starlet, artists and showbiz, teenage life, lifestyle, youth, celebrity culture, parents and children, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by ...
Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: african american, self esteem, coming of age, child prodigy, hopes, teacher, prodigy, teachers and students, elementary school, mentor, black, culture clash ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: los angeles, washington d.c., america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.4
 2K
Alabama Moon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: wilderness, best friend, boy, friendship, coming of age, orphan, life turned upside down, father son relationship, friends, youth, adventurer, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.5
 7K
Bee Season (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 11-year-old Eliza is the invisible element of her family unit: her parents are both consumed with work and her brother is wrapped up in his own adolescent life. Eliza ignites not only a spark that makes her visible but one that sets into motion a ...
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, religion, family drama, depression, life philosophy, judaism, family relations, family problems, coming of age, parents and children, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, bay area, washington d.c., sacramento california, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.2
 113
Anton (1996)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Anton is 10 years old. Anton's father was a jet fighter pilot who died in an accident. Anton's mother told Anton that his father is flying angels around in heaven. Anton is obsessed with aeroplanes (his bedroom is full of models and ...
Plot: coming of age, child, children, child protagonist, bully, schoolboy, first love, pilot, air force, fighter jet, girl, death ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Letter Writer (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a teenager receives a mysterious letter in the mail, she sets out to find the author. It's a journey that will change her life forever.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: honesty, teenage life, youth, friendship, family relations, parents and children, religions or cults, aging, rebelliousness, father daughter relationship, christian, faith ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.9
 177K
Wonder (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: bullying, child, school, middle school, friendship, happy ending, father son relationship, deformity, family relations, fight, hospital, science teacher ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The World of Us (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An outcast's relationship with her new summer friend is put to the test when the school year begins.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, teen
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: friendship, father and daughter, childhood, bullying, children, father daughter relationship, little girl, school, mother and daughter, hopes, mother daughter relationship, female homosexuality ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he ...
Style: emotional, talky, intense, humorous, touching ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family problems, family in crisis, family gatherings, couples, husband wife relationship, mountain, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, equality ...
Time: 60s, year 1963
Place: wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
Style: sad, depressing, emotional, epic, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: dog, youth, great depression, childhood, camping, camp, soul searching, animal, camping trip, canine, coming of age, friendship ...
Time: 1900s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Moondance Alexander (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance ...
Style: feel good, realistic, serious, sincere
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, friendship, ambition, young heroes, follow your dream, obsessive quest, human spirit, against the odds, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.7
 7K
Andre (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of how a marine seal named Andre befriended a little girl and her family, circa 1962.
Style: sentimental, touching, sad, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, animal, seal the animal, heartwarming, friendship, youth, small town, water, wildlife, magic, human animal friendship ...
Time: year 1994, year 1962, 90s, 60s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.5
 1K
Opal Dream (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Pobby & Dingan are invisible. They live in an opal town in Australia and are friends with Kellyanne, the 9 year-old daughter of an opal miner. The film tells the story of the bizarre and inexplicable disappearance of Pobby & Dingan, ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sad
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: imaginary friend, family relations, friendship, imaginary character, self discovery, hopes, siblings relations, culture clash, best friend, single parent, mischievous children, introspection ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Rubber Tarzan (1981)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on ...
Plot: working class, family relations, children, bully, loneliness, school, boy, father son relationship, bullying, friend, friendship, abuse ...
Place: copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city official and his pals to justice
Plot: teenage detective, youth, child kidnapping, best friend, listening device, child in peril, amateur detective, child protagonist, amateur sleuth, invention, inventor, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.
Style: touching, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Audience: family outing, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: youth, friendship, bullying, american girl, family relations, family life, school, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, teacher student relationship, female protagonist, occupation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.9
 2K
Tiger Cruise (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On its last leg homeward, from Pearl Harbour (Hawaii) to San Diego, the USS Constellation hosts a jolly 'tiger cruise' for USNavy, Marines and USNAF relatives, mainly minors ('Navy brats'). Attitudes and emotions vary from simple ...
Style: sad
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, father figure, 9/11, war on terror, terrorism, aviation, occupation, teenager, us military, ship, navy, bomb ...
Time: september 11 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.3
 579
Hold Me Tight (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story: I skoletimerne sender Mikkel prøvende blikke til klassens stille og indelukkede pige, Sara, der er smigret over opmærksomheden. Da Mikkel og hans ven Hassan leger flirtende med hende i et frikvarter, bliver Hassans kæreste, Louise, jaloux og ...
Style: crying
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, male pubic hair, snow, male nudity, student, teenager, scandinavian girl, suicide, father son relationship, school, brother sister relationship, suicide by hanging ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Suddenly people in her town are mysteriously healed! But fame soon takes its toll – can Sara’s family save her before it’s too late?
Style: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, psychological
Audience: family outing
Plot: christian, faith, belief in god, father daughter relationship, girl, religion, price of fame, faith healing, religious, miraculous event, family relations, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.1
 5K
Foxes (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
Style: stylized, sexual, social, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, relationships, addiction, drug abuse, girl gang, sex, drug addiction, teen angst, hardcore, street kid ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Lightning, the White Stallion (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a stolen white stallion escapes his captors, young Stephanie Ward gives him a new home and a new name: Lightning. As she grooms the horse for show-jumping competition, the pair forms an unbreakable bond. But when Stephanie finds herself in need ...
Style: independent film
Plot: horse, equestrian, horse riding, girl horse relationship, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, boy girl relationship, rider horse relationship, horse trainer, teenage girl, gambling, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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