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Chicago Boricua (2004)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of young Puerto Ricans in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood grapple with issues of identity: A beauty queen may need to mask her ethnicity; a college student falls for a bad boy; a real estate agent resists exploiting his roots.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
Plot:
family relations, ambition, fall in love, social differences, moral dilemma, unlikely couple, love and romance, couples, society, workplace, boss and employee, city life, drug dealer, real estate agent, profanity, urban, power relations, nudity, sex, violence, pregnancy, party, college, marijuana, baseball ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
chicago, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, society, couples, love and romance, youth, parents and children and hopes mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Chicago Boricua: Bottled Up (2013), Everyday People (2004), Face (2002), Game of Life (2007), A Cooler Climate (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, sincere, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
lgbt, female bonding, housekeeper, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, hopes, human nature, couple relations, society, master and servant, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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234
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's teenage kids, who are going through their own journeys of ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, profanity, bittersweet, love and romance, society, power relations, couples, computers and web, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
small town, hopes, friends, ambition, follow your dream, couples, family relations, troublemaker, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Niccolo (Mac) Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers and leads their family after their beloved father dies. Their father was a builder and his sons continue in this family trade. At first, they work for Polowski, who does shoddy work and cheats on ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
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Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1992
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
621
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, erotic, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sexual, humorous ...
Plot:
autism, true love, unlikely couple, love affair, society, social differences, athlete's life, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, fall in love, social misfits ...
Time:
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Place:
california
Similarity:
21%
129
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, destiny, hopes, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
18-year-old Hannah Yoder is ready to become an Amish adult - which means baptism into the Church and marriage to her boyfriend, Samuel. However, her friends convince her to visit Hollywood for Rumspringa where she meets Josh and the two hit it off ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, forbidden love, amish, religions or cults, couples, youth, society, love and romance, culture clash, love affair, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
PARAISO TRAVEL is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his girlfriend Reina leaves his comfortable life in Medellin and flees with her through Guatemala and Mexico, across the borders, illegally into the United States. ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
young lovers, self discovery, hopes, starting over, couples, youth, obsessive quest, love and romance, follow your dream, couple relations, female nudity, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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749
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, mumblecore, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
missouri, usa, california
Similarity:
20%
378
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
437
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Plot:
opposites attract, unlikely couple, social differences, fall in love, couples, obsession, love and romance, youth, society, orphan, destructive relationship, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
fall in love, fish out of water, couples, social differences, culture clash, couple relations, society, love and romance, class system, maid, wedding, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sarah Collins is considering an abortion. Before she makes her final decision, she is presented with three visions causing her to think about the impact on her future.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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497
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, talky, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, unlikely couple, hopes, family relations, family problems, teenage life, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, single parent ...
Similarity:
19%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, single parent, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, youth, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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