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18 Years Old and Rising (2011)
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Original name: J'aime regarder les filles
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, erotic, realistic, sincere
Plot:
teenage life, unrequited love, teenage love, youth, parents and children, love and romance, class differences, fall in love, social differences, hidden identity, society, wooing, dishonesty, teenage girl, bourgeoisie, coming of age, student, girlfriend, high society, in love, heartache, teenage crush, teen romance, boy girl relationship, class conflict ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, youth, teenage life, family relations, teenage love, couples and coming of age mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like 18 Years Old and Rising: Madly in Love (2010), Camille Rewinds (2012), Alex Is Lovesick (1986), Graduate First (1978), The Party (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
not serious, sentimental, sincere, humorous, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, family life, couples, love and romance, couple relations, youth, teenage life, parents and children, teenage love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
time travel, skinny dipping, high school, teenage love, couples, one more chance, family relations, youth, parents and children, teenage life, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 2000s
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, aunt nephew relationship, female nudity, bar mitzvah, israeli, israeli culture, nude girl, aunt, black market, family relations, young heroes, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on a popular manga series of the same name, this Japanese romantic comedy follows the lives of two high school students, Kotoko, a bubbly girl who’s hopeless in school, and Naoki, her smart and handsome senior. Although Kotoko gathers up the ...
Style:
light, realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
unrequited love, school, love and romance, teenage love, first love, unfulfilled love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, grownups, high school, fall in love, youth ...
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.
Style:
offbeat, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
children, interracial marriage, food industry, insider trading, household, working conditions, interracial, poverty, homeless, black, interracial relations, working class ...
Time:
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Place:
lyon, france, europe
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of friends, coming to the end of their school years, fill their days with sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
Style:
contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teacher student relationship, wedding party, teenager, soccer match, horse, union, graduation, strike, marxism, labor, family relations, high school ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, flanders, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, teenage love, family problems, love and romance, relationships, love story, first love, teenage life, friends, youth ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, normandy, tokyo, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Lola, a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood, who longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
Style:
sexy, touching, realistic, captivating, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, youth, high school, teenage life, teenage girl, high school life, coming of age, parents and children, teenager, young love, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Tunisia, France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
bathhouse, turkish bath, circumcision, coming of age, sexual awakening, arab, nudity, female nudity, youth, young boy, boy, erotica ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tunisia, middle east, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, sincere, captivating, light ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, youth, family relations, family life, teenage love, buddies, social relations, introspection, kids and family, nursing, life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Mustafa Moradi is aching to find a girlfriend. On the other end of the city, Linnea is desperately searching for a guy with style, courage and a burning passion.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, romantic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teenage love, gay, clubbing, teenage life, looking for love, love and romance, hidden identity, society, misfit, lgbt, escapades, male masturbation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother..
Style:
sentimental, sincere, melancholic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
love, high school student, sex, mother daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance, hopes, runaway, friendship, youth ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family problems, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the loss of his mother has sucked the joie de vivre out of him; his best friend Alice knows it ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, starting over, love and romance, hopes, teenage life, couples, human nature, family problems, gays and lesbians, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, eros ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
young lovers, fall in love, social differences, couples, society, beauty salon, provincial life, unrequited love, professor, love and romance, couple relations, nudity ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
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:
independent film, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, comedy drama ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, soccer, teenager, football, unrequited love, brother sister relationship, friendship between boys, sexual awakening, coach, teenage love, infatuation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, year 1981, 70s
Place:
scotland, britain, europe, australia, new jersey ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Charlotte is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, working class, summer vacation, rebel, child prodigy, coming of age, adolescence, crazy love, friendship, age difference, children, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, funny, cynical, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, male female relationship, opposites attract, bossy woman, family relations, life turned upside down, social differences, self discovery, power relations, rich and poor, parents and children, human nature ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, belgium
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, art house
Plot:
single parent, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, youth, love and romance, teenage love, parents and children, couples, summer, disorder, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of Henrik, who takes part in a student exchange program with France. The only reason for this journey is to conquer the heart of his dream girl. Wild Partys, exciting trips, a crazy host family and of course his trouble with the French ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, love and romance, teenage life, fish out of water, misfit, friends, lifestyle, language barrier, summer vacation, comedy of errors, escapades, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, germany, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it ...
Style:
romantic, teen, sexy, romantic comedy, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
high school, bullying, coming of age, teenage girl, relationships, teen romance, teenager, class differences, high school student, love story, father daughter relationship, first love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, massachusetts, california
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Style:
cult classic, contemplative, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, female protagonist, jewish girl, political protest, school, high school, friendship, children, schoolgirl, sister sister relationship, girl, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, interracial relations, parents and children, prejudice, multiculturalism, family conflict, relationships, social commentary ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, youth, love, teenager, teenage love, love and romance, first love, friendship, virginity, teenage girl, first sex, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A group of high school Seniors juggle between old loves and new flings on the shores of a beautiful Italian town.
Style:
talky, romantic, humorous, emotional, touching
Plot:
teenage love, high school student, friendship, young love, teenager, vacation, friends, teenage life, adolescence, social problems, disorder, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, school, sex, older woman younger man relationship, best friend, family relations, looking for sex, fall in love, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, teenage love ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, hawaii, illinois, california ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
Style:
parody, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
fall in love, coming of age, cold war, summer, domineering father, skinny dipping, grandfather grandson relationship, traumatic childhood, family relations, revolution, teenage life, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1984, 60s, 20th century
Place:
former yugoslavia, prague, balkan, europe, serbia ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A high school jock bets his friends that he can score with the school beauty queen, who is also a virgin.
Style:
sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bet, virginity, teenager, love, canuxploitation, couples, social relations, friends, gender, youth, love and romance, college ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not ...
Style:
contemplative, semi serious, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot:
art history, crazy love, marriage, female friendship, amor, birthday party, screwball, couples, friends, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, maine
Similarity:
19%
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