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A Cappella (2016)
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A Cappella (2016)
Original name: 無伴奏
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Set in the year 1969 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Kyoko Noma is a loving female high school student who takes part in campus protests. One day, she meets university student Wataru Domoto in the tea cafe Mubansou ("A Cappella"). Kyoko falls in love with him, but they get involved in an incident that leads to a shocking ending.
Style: tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
Plot: gay, protest, revolution, japanese schoolgirl, youth, heroes, friendship, schoolgirl, society, danger, high school, dishonesty, bisexual, beach, japanese woman, autobiography, nude, school uniform, mini skirt, mini dress, short skirt, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time: year 1969
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological, unusual plot structure and suspense films with plots about youth, society, friendship, gay, teenager, friends and escapades mostly in Drama, Sport and Crime genres. Some movies like A Cappella: Taksu (2014), Drucker in the Dug-Out (2011), Wilderness: Part Two (2017), 6A (2016), Dog Days (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Taksu (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Chihiro is depressed and obsessed with his own mortality. Him and his wife, Yuri (Yoko Mitsuya), decide to take a trip to Bali, Indonesia to see his pregnant sister, Kumi (Kiki Sugino). They hope the trip can bring about change.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, road movie, independent film
Plot: husband wife relationship, pregnant woman, seduction, family problems, family relations, marital problem, relationship problems, marital crisis, male female relationship, pregnant wife, depression, marriage crisis ...
Place: bali, indonesia, asia
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Drucker in the Dug-Out (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story: The movie is about Minami Kawashima, a high school girl who becomes the manager of her school's baseball team in place of her hospitalized friend, Yuki Miyata. She tries to lead the team to the National High School Baseball Championship by ...
Style: captivating, sincere, uplifting, psychological
Plot: baseball, school, japanese schoolgirl, contests and competitions, sport team, rivalry, manager, disability, society, friendship, human spirit, japanese girl ...
Place: japan
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Saki Achiga-hen: Episode of Side-A (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Sequel movie to the live-action Saki TV series.
Style: captivating, sincere, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: mahjong, sexy girl, japanese teenager, teenager, japanese girl, escapades, friends, contests and competitions, friendship, youth, rivalry, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Run! T High School Basketball Club (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Yoichi plays basketball at his junior high and is capable. He is granted a scholarship and attends a high school with a superlative basket team. Instead of welcoming the boy the students there decide to bully and harass the new player leading Yoichi ...
Style: captivating, contemplative, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense
Plot: high school, teenager, basketball, school, japanese school, athlete, teenage life, rivalry, friendship, friends, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Wilderness: Part Two (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: friendship, japanese man, boxing, training, inferiority complex, speech impediment, fight, danger, friendship between men, youth, rivalry, violence ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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6A (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min.
Story: As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of ...
Style: suspense, tense, contemplative, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: bullying, school teacher, school, teacher, parents, doubt, mistrust, crisis, friendship, teenager, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Dog Days (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Endless dog days of summer weigh heavily on the impoverished suburb of Changsha where a young mother, Lulu, works as a dancer in a cheap nightclub. Coming home late one night, she discovers that her boyfriend Bai Long has disappeared with their ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: missing person, baby, husband wife relationship, family relations, dishonesty, abduction, danger, child abduction, society, parents and children, female protagonist, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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Easy Land (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: mental breakdown, architect, mental illness, refugee, family relations, parents and children, youth, rescue, life is a bitch, society, danger, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The Kirishima Thing (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, semi serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot: high school, disappearance, society, friendship, youth, social relations, high school student, rivalry, asian, great ending, teenager, japanese schoolgirl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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46%
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Hero (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Kohei Kuryu returns to Tokyo, reunites with his former colleagues, and goes up against one of the most famous lawyers in Tokyo to solve a new case and team up with his best partner, Maiko Amemiya.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: rivalry, master warrior, legal action, investigation, partner, murder, uncover truth, love, danger, friendship, prosecutor, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, busan, korea, asia
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Summertime (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
Style: sincere, psychological, light, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, summer vacation, gay interest, love, friendship, summer, couples, friends, love and romance, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, italy, new york
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The Companion (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Panama, France, Colombia, Venezuela
Duration: 104 min.
Story: At the height of the 1980s AIDS epidemic, Cuban boxing champion Horacio's punishment for failing a drug test is to watch over the brash, combative Daniel, a patient in a sanatorium where HIV patients are compulsorily confined. The two collide ...
Style: captivating, psychological, sincere, unusual plot structure, thought provoking ...
Plot: aids, boxer, hiv positive, hiv, friendship, friends, gay, youth, escapades, male objectification, bare chested male, trophy ...
Time: 80s
Place: cuba
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
Plot: friendship, youth, friend, teenager, classmate, teenage boy, family relations, mother daughter relationship, friends, rape, rape victim, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Red Zone (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Mac and his high school gangster buddies try to take over the world of sports betting in a city filled with crime, prostitution and gambling. When the Mafia gets involved, they do whatever it takes to keep these tough young-bloods off their turf.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: gambling, high school, casino, gangster, ambition, sport team, buddies, football, rivalry, friendship, danger, mafia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Magazine editor Taishin Mamiya interviews high school model Noeru Kisaragi. Despite Noeru's bad attitude, his painting of an ocean intrigues Mamiya and leads to a dinner, during which Noeru solicits Mamiya sexually. Soon Mamiya sees Noeru with ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic ...
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I Promise You Anarchy (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: tense, suspense, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
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Time: year 2004, 2000s
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Toro (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Friends Toro and Victor struggle with drug addiction and male prostitution in a hostile environment. When they lose all their money, their longstanding friendship is put to the test.
Style: contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: debt, drug addict, drug abuse, sex worker, prostitute, addiction, friends, friendship, gay, violence, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
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Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, philosophical
Plot: death sentence, life & death, summary execution, legal, legislation, society, murder, social problems, law and order, social relations, comic book, superhero ...
Time: near future
Place: japan, east asia
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Style: romantic, psychological, tense, captivating, melancholic ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Party Talk (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Four creative and sexually confused high school seniors are forced to deal with their sense of isolation while attending a booze-soaked party in New York City.
Style: psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
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Time: year 2017
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Face 2 Face (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere, tense, touching ...
Plot: bullying, coming of age, childhood friend, found footage, friendship, youth, couple relations, love and romance, teenage life, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples ...
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Country: Japan
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Style: tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, psychological ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Style: sexy, melancholic, touching, unusual plot structure, sentimental ...
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Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story: A glimpse into the lives of three prostitutes in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo and the clients who solicit them.
Style: sincere, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
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Place: tokyo, japan
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Seto and Utsumi (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Utsumi and Seto's daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over trivial word play, agonizing over the content of an email to be sent to a girl, and, at times, talking ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: high school student, high school, routine, meeting, teenage life, adolescence, lifestyle, society, teenager, high school life, teenage boy, school ...
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Ville-Marie (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Celebrated European actor Sophie Bernard is in Montreal shooting a movie, and she's taking the opportunity to visit her son Thomas in the hope of bridging the rift that's grown between them. But Thomas has his own agenda for their time ...
Style: sexy, psychological, touching, tense, unusual plot structure ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
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So Pretty (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Four young queers in New York City struggle to maintain their proto-utopian community against the outside world as their lives curiously merge with the 1980s German novel "So schön" by Ronald M. Schernikau.
Style: disturbing, contemplative, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: bisexuality, sexuality, gay, lgbt, protest, transsexual, female nudity, male nudity, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, polyamory, nude ...
Place: new york, usa
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Coming Out (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yo is a gay college student who doesn't have the courage to come out to his friends and family.
Style: romantic, melancholic, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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