Movies like ReLIFE 2017

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ReLIFE (2017)
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ReLIFE (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Arata Kaizaki is 27-years-old and unemployed. He quit his prior job after working for the company for 3 months. Arata Kaizaki decides to take part in a research program. He takes medication that makes him look younger and he is to attend high school for a year. There, he falls in love with female high school student Chizuru Hishiro.
Style: romantic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, sweet, captivating, dorama, crying, intelligent, intellectual
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love story, rejuvenation, teenager, high school, love, relationships, friendship, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, starting over, romantic friendship, couple relations, youth, romantic relationship, destiny, in love, couples, medical experiment, society, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hopes, superhero, young love ...
Time: contemporary
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out romantic, touching, sentimental and sweet films with plots about love, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, fall in love, couples and youth mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like ReLIFE: One Week Friends (2017), Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016), Perfect World (2018), Drowning Love (2016), Sky Of Love (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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One Week Friends (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: High school student Yuki Hase (Kento Yamazaki) wants to become close with classmate Kaori Fujimiya (Haruna Kawaguchi) who is alway by herself. Kaori Fujimiya refuses to become close with Yuki Hase, because she forgets her friends every new Monday. ...
Style: romantic, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: classmate, friendship, classmate classmate relationship, love affair, couples, fall in love, love, destiny, youth, hopes, love and romance, couple relations ...
Place: japan
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L♡DK: Two Loves Under One Roof (2019)
Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Aoi Nishimori and Shusei Kugayama are in love and they begin to live together secretly. Suddenly, Shusei's cousin Reon Kugayama comes to them. Their secret is discovered by Reon. Now, Aoi, Shusei and Reon begin to live together.
Style: sentimental, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
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Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Erika Shinohara (Fumi Nikaido) is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika Shinohara doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to ...
Style: romantic, touching, sweet, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: japanese girl, love, relationships, fall in love, male female relationship, couple relations, escapades, love and romance, teenager, couples, youth, friendship ...
Place: japan
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100%
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Perfect World (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tsugumi Kawana (Hana Sugisaki) works at an interior design company. She happens to meet her first love Itsuki Ayukawa (Takanori Iwata) from her high school days. He is now an architect and in a wheelchair because of an accident. --asianwiki
Style: sincere, captivating, crying
Plot: cripple, kindness, true love, wheelchair bound, love, rehabilitation, friend, disability, man in a wheelchair, male female relationship, couple relations, in love ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Drowning Love (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, disturbing, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, love affair, obsession, love, fall in love, friendship, couples, life philosophy, hopes, destiny, adaptation ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sky Of Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: During her freshman year in high school, Mika Tahara (Yui Aragaki) loses her cellular phone, but later finds it in the school library with the help of an unknown caller. Throughout the summer, Mika and the mysterious caller continue to communicate, ...
Style: romantic, sweet, bad ending, sentimental, sincere ...
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I Give My First Love to You (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: As a child Takuma is diagnosed with a heart condition that requires care from a cardiologist. He soon becomes friends with his doctors young daughter Mayu while being treated at the hospital. One day Mayu overhears her father saying that Takumas ...
Style: touching, sincere, suspense, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, first love, teen romance, japanese girl, love, hopes, tragedy, breaking up with girlfriend, illness, siblings, superhero, love story ...
Place: japan
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100%
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Narratage (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: During spring, 2nd year university student Izumi Kudo (Kasumi Arimura) receives a phone call from Takashi Hayama (Jun Matsumoto). Takashi Hayama was her adviser/teacher at her high school drama club. He asks her on the phone to take part in a ...
Style: romantic, uplifting, captivating, sweet, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: teacher student relationship, teacher, japanese woman, university student, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, couples, love affair, youth, love, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Liar and His Lover (2017)
Genre: Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Story: Kang Han-Kyeol is a great yet sullen composer who becomes inspired by the voices of others and keeps his identity secret from people. He meets Yoon So-Rim, a high school student who possesses beautiful singing, whilst under his secret identity, and ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, sweet, dorama
Audience: chick flick
Plot: couples, composer, music industry, muse, songwriter, friendship, love affair, love, couple relations, fall in love, hopes, destiny ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Little Monster (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Problem student Haru Yoshida sits next to the cold and studious Shizuku Mizutani in class. Without any other friends to turn to, both of them start to get to know each other and grow closer. Haru eventually develop feelings for Shizuku and confesses ...
Style: romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: high school, love affair, youth, love, fall in love, couples, friendship, destiny, love and romance, couple relations, asian school, japanese schoolgirl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
For Both of Us (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Çiçek is a girl who grew up in a small village. She has so many questions about her own life with no answers. And then her life is changed by Dogan, her literature teacher.
Style: sentimental, psychological, sweet, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, love, destiny, couples, couple relations, male female relationship, hopes, teacher, love affair, love and romance, relationships, loneliness ...
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Honey (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nao is normally shy at school. It is a surprise when Taiga propositions her for a date and eventual marriage. Nao means to say 'no,' but says 'yes' instead not knowing how to reject such a proposal. Taiga has always come across a ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, captivating, light, crying
Plot: teenager, girl, high school, love, coming of age, couples, youth, high school life, society, humble, proposal, thug ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Love The Way You Are (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Opposites clash when spunky girl next door Lin Lin meets eccentric nerd Yuke. Despite being neighbors and schoolmates since childhood, Lin Lin and Yuke barely know each other. When the pair are both admitted into the same university, Lin Lin ...
Style: uplifting, touching, romantic, sweet, sentimental
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: couples, love affair, love, fall in love, friendship, love and romance, youth, society, couple relations, destiny, reunion
Place: china, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
We Were There: True Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: During the 2nd year of high school in the winter season, Yano (Toma Ikuta) transferred from Kushiro to Tokyo due to a family matter. Yano and Nanami (Yuriko Yoshitaka) promised to meet again. A couple of years later, Nanami is busy finding a job, ...
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Plot: renewed love, teen romance, parent child relationship, unfulfilled love, love, love affair, high school sweetheart, adolescence, couple relations, teenage love, love and romance, looking for love ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Tune in for Love (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1994, on the first day that Yoo Yeul went on air as the new DJ of the popular radio show ‘Music Album,' a college girl Mi-su meets Hyun-woo who happens to drop by the bakery she works at. Like the music streaming from the radio, their ...
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Audience: chick flick
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Time: 90s
Place: thailand, east asia
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23%
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Endless Love (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A famous and a wealthy doctor, falls in love with a poor housekeeper.
Style: sexy, sweet, sentimental, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
From Me To You (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Sawako Kuronuma, called Sadako by her classmates for her resemblance to the character from Ring, has always been feared and misunderstood because of her appearance. There are rumors that Sawako can see ghosts and curse people. However, despite her ...
Style: shoujo, sentimental, captivating, sweet, psychological ...
Plot: feminine wiles, love, teenage girl, school, father daughter relationship, fall in love, high school life, social misfits, couples, love story, friendship, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Make a Bow and Kiss (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the comic book by Yakko Kaga
Style: sweet, captivating, light, romantic, crying ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: female bare legs, japanese teenager, dating, sexy brunette, crush, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, love, child neglect, teenage crush, father son relationship, tournament ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Strobe Edge (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Ninako Kinoshita has never been in love until an encounter with the school's most popular boy, Ren Ichinose, leads the two to befriending each other. Ren's patient and kind personality is a far cry from his unapproachable idol status at ...
Style: shoujo, captivating, disturbing, psychological, romantic ...
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Place: east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nino is a quiet outcast with only a bird for a friend. Kira is a popular boy with a big secret. Even though they live next to each other, they have never spoken. But when Nino learns Kira's secret, everything begins to change, and what starts ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Half Girlfriend (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Madhav Jha, a rustic boy from Bihar who is drawn to his college-mate, Riya Somani, an affluent English-speaking girl from Delhi. There’s just one hitch here. Riya is willing to go thus far and no further; Madhav continues being obsessed with her. ...
Style: romantic, touching, psychological, disturbing, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, fall in love, love and romance, destiny, couples, youth, male female friendship, friendship, promise ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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You, I Love (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rin, Yuu, Koyomi and Keita are friends in high school who live in the same apartment building. Rin and Yuu like each other, but they don’t tell each other, until Kazuma shows up.
Style: sexy, touching, sentimental, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, japanese school, teenage girl, shyness, high school, classmate, japanese teenager, teenager, neighbor, couples, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Pretend Girlfriend (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Story: Noboru is a high school student who isn't popular at all. He looks up to senior student Miyazaki who is one of the most popular guys at school. Miyazaki has two girlfriends: Momose and Tetsuko. Momose and Tetsuko have totally different ...
Style: romantic, light, captivating, shoujo
Plot: love story, first love, high school, relationships, teenage love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, friends, love interest, romantic relationship, pretense, male female relationship ...
Place: east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
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Audience: teens
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Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young musician travels to Burning Man, a psychedelic festival in the middle of the Nevada desert, in an attempt to get the impetuous girl he has fallen in love with.
Style: uplifting, romantic, touching, sentimental, sweet
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: "We Were There" follows the 10 year romance between Motoharu Yano (Toma Ikuta) & Nanami Takahashi (Yuriko Yoshitaka). During their high school days, Motoharu Yano was the most popular boy in school, but can't get over the ...
Style: touching, romantic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: cancer patient, teenage love, separation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, old friend, sadness, teenager, love story, superhero, stepmother stepson relationship, high school ...
Place: japan, tokyo, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
All the Bright Places (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Violet Markey and Theodore Finch, who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean ...
Style: romantic, sweet, uplifting, teen, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: teenager, interracial romance, love story, love and romance, teen romance, coming of age, true love, young adult, love affair, teenage crush, traumatic experience, mental illness ...
Time: 2020s
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Bad Boy (2017)
Genre: Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Kayla, at the age of seventeen, moves to a foreign city with her rich father, whom she saw for the first time in her life. Then she falls in love with a bad boy. Meriç is a child who chooses to live alone among solid walls and darkness. Kayla ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, romantic, sweet, touching
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, love affair, fall in love, love and romance, couples, couple relations, destiny, youth, society, hopes, friendship, adaptation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Love O2O (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: What is it that makes a man fall in love with a woman at first sight? Appearance? Aura? Wealth? NO, when campus prince and gaming expert, student Xiao Nai first saw Bei Wei Wei, what made him fall in love was not her extraordinary beauty, but her ...
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Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Blue Summer (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Rio is a high school student in Tokyo. Her mother tells her she will spend the summer in the countryside. There, she meets Ginzo. He is a high school student and handsome. They fall in love.
Style: talky, psychological, romantic, touching, humorous ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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