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Casa Grande (2014)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his 'casa grande' - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, independent film, spectacular, semi autobiographical
Audience:
teens
Plot:
class differences, teenage life, under the surface, parents and children, social differences, family problems, power relations, family life, society, social relations, unfulfillment, male female relationship, coming of age, teenager, seductress, teenage boy, loner, cleaning, high school student, hardship, worker, high school, boyhood, family relations, youth ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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Most similar movies to Casa Grande
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about youth, love and romance, coming of age, family relations, society, parents and children and teenage life mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Casa Grande: The Empty Hours (2013), Love Hurts (2002), Finn's Girl (2007), The Goob (2014), Some Things That Stay (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The second film from Aarón Fernández is a Spain-Mexico-France co-production already screened as part of Films in Progress at the 60th edition of the Festival. On the desolate coast of Veracruz, young Sebastián, 17, has to run his uncle's ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, female nudity, older woman younger man, love and romance, teenage love, youth, teenage life, seduction, motel, seaside, couples, sex ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by sending her to Canada. The story remarks the difference ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, poverty, wealth, social differences, forbidden love, against the odds, young lovers, youth, society, fall in love, parents and children, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico city, mexico, latin america
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's". The movie covers, teenage angst, ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, family life, hopes, youth, human spirit, love and romance, rebelliousness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
We’re in the middle of a heat-wave in Fenland England. Goob Taylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping Mum run the transport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When Mum shacks up with swarthy stock-car supremo and ladies’ ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage boy, family relations, teenage love, youth, small town, parents and children, teenager, boy, hot guys, friendship, summer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage love, love affair, family problems, love and romance, society, lifestyle, family life, life turned upside down, teenage life, farm ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
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35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, first love, first sexual experience, love and romance, youth, family relations, hopes, village, parents and children, teenager, age difference, teenage sex ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
holland
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, love and romance, couples, family problems, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. ...
Style:
period piece, contemplative, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
young lovers, pregnancy, boat, female nudity, yacht, funeral, teenage crush, bittersweet, friendship, politics, society, teenage life ...
Time:
year 1985, 50s
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story ...
Style:
road movie, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
virgin mary, youth, on the road, family relations, hopes, unemployment, injustice, family problems, life is a bitch, working class, teenage life, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, contemplative
Plot:
obsession, self discovery, love triangle, love affair, social decay, society, life is a bitch, aging, elderly, rich and poor, power relations, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chile, santiago chile
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, rich and poor, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, class differences ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, couples, unfulfilled love, teenage life, hopes, society, friendship, male female relationship, looking for sex, youth, loss of virginity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
love, coming of age, small town, bittersweet, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, young love, older man younger woman romance, male female relationship, father, misfit ...
Time:
year 1998, 1930s
Place:
ireland, illinois, chicago, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory, twins, patient, terminal illness, hospital, couples, family problems, family relations, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
33%
319
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger brother comes of age, the inevitable jealousy, confusion, rivalry and lust place their brotherly love in ...
Style:
sexual, uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
love triangle, brother brother relationship, coming of age, young love, young lovers, teenage sexuality, jealousy, priest, rivalry, sibling rivalry, absent mother, catholic ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, germany, africa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong side of town.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, romantic, realistic
Plot:
swimming, canceled wedding, fall in love, social differences, teenage life, youth, hopes, society, love and romance, parents and children, family life, working class ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
friendship, racial discrimination, desert, ethnic, female pubic hair, immigrant, settler, social differences, culture clash, teenage life, teenage love, society ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Style:
contemplative, sentimental, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, memory loss, teenage love, love triangle, self discovery, fall in love, social relations, youth, couples, society, amnesia, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, usa, asia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
country girl, social differences, master and servant, youth, society, teaching the ways of the world, strong female presence, estate, power relations, urban setting, social problems, social relations ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, freeze frame
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, teenage love, eccentric family, love and romance, countryside, teenage life, fall in love, parents and children, estate, bittersweet, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
female nudity, coming of age, love, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, family relations, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, parent child relationship, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
Style:
sexy, touching, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage love, parents and children, family relations, high school life, youth, sister sister relationship, friendship, high school, sisterhood, teenage girl, girlhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
33%
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355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sentimental, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lacrosse, friendship, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, rebel, female bonding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, destiny, maid, friendship, tragic hero, single parent, love affair, teenage love, tragic love, family relations, youth, destructive relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
32%
568
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young boy from a working-class family and a bored young girl from a rich family are falling in love. Soon, she's pregnant and the teenagers have to escape from their disapproving parents.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, teenage love, on the run, forbidden love, social differences, couples, lifestyle, youth, young lovers, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A rich college kid is taught a lesson after a joy ride ends up destroying a country restaurant.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
cancer, fall in love, teenage love, rich and poor, small town, terminal illness, love story, teenage life, social differences, youth, couples, class differences ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minnesota, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, teenage love, young lovers, teenager, young couple, coming of age, love, bittersweet, computers and web, infidelity, small town life, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
texas, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, realistic, serious, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
social differences, family relations, life is a bitch, society, rise and fall, lifestyle, family business, money problems, family problems, family life, social problems, youth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
Similarity:
32%
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