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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
488
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is seduced by her mathematic teacher Peter Robertson, the world of Isabelle falls apart. She becomes lost and loses her confidence on Amy, spoiling their relationship. Their bond gets tied again when Isabelle discloses her inner secrets from the past to Amy.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
parents and children, teenage life, friendship, youth, family life, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, disgraced, pregnancy, teachers and students, isolation, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, obsession, mathematics, family relations, repression, sexual relations, couples, high school life, high school, suburbs, suburban life ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new england, maine
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Most similar movies to Amy & Isabelle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, single parent, family problems and teenage life mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Amy & Isabelle: Wild Iris (2001), Face (2002), The Pregnancy Project (2012), Everybody Dies But Me (2008), Ricochet River (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
497
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
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 ...
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100%
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:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family relations, parents and children, dishonesty, high school, youth, teachers and students, pregnant teenager, teenager, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, gloomy, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friends, teenage life, life is a bitch, boy girl relationship, youth, family problems, friendship, high school life, social relations, dysfunctional family, school, social decay ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, interracial relations, culture clash, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, best friend, on the road, small town, society, social misfits, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A woman with two children believes she has three and her husband and oldest daughter play along with her to keep her balanced (or as close to balanced that a woman with an invisible child can be). However, when the family hires a new nanny, it is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, touching
Plot:
imaginary friend, youth, evil child, family relations, dysfunctional family, mental illness, couples, estrangement, family problems, master and servant, couple relations, betrayal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
Style:
retro, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, scandal, infidelity, mother in law, family relations, dysfunctional family, social relations, couples, estrangement, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent ...
Time:
year 1961, 50s
Place:
new york, massachusetts, new hampshire, usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
244
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, obsessive quest, single parent, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, lyon, europe, france
Similarity:
100%
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204
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenage life, family problems, family relations, parents and children, child as adult, teachers and students, minimalism, lgbt, everyday life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
100%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
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:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, youth, family life, estrangement, family problems, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, bittersweet, single parent ...
Time:
60s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Edward's father walked out on his family years ago. In the years since, his mother has become a fundamentalist Christian and fallen for the school's self-righteous principal, Henry Howland. When Howland begins to mistreat Edward's ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious
Plot:
dysfunctional family, arson, sibling relationship, youth, coming of age, vengeance, betrayal, society, single parent, family life, teenage life, school ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A widow named Harriet and her two children Carrie and Brian are living in rural New York in 1947 and are still recovering from the death of Harriet's husband killed in World War II. Carrie is a tomboy and hangs around with boys and they have ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot:
youth, mentally challenged, wooing, prank, self discovery, dysfunctional family, hopes, family problems, couples, love and romance, society, single parent ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
544
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, swimmer, sex crime, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
Similarity:
100%
740
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, touching, sad
Plot:
family relations, single parent, haunted by the past, parents and children, youth, social relations, suburbs, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, teenager, boat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
family life, family problems, parents and children, single parent, family gatherings, society, hopes, small town, death in the family, bittersweet, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
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Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
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458
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic
Plot:
disability, family relations, family problems, family life, social relations, couples, society, couple relations, youth, babies and infants, pregnancy, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
mississippi, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style:
touching, bleak, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, parents and children, life turned upside down, single parent, disorder, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, youth, parents, children, addiction ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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603
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adoption, politics, power relations, babies and infants, society, master and servant, single parent, love and romance, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
isolation, winter, family problems, family in crisis, youth, single parent, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, teenage life, parents and children, working class, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges she and her family face.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, hispanic
Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, human spirit, rise to the top, family life, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, hopes, youth, single parent, teachers and students ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, puerto rico, usa, latin america, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
621
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
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:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, humorous, sexual ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, nanny, friendship between boys, stroke, dysfunctional family, society, survival, betrayal, parents and children, family life, family relations ...
Time:
year 1983, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, sexual ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teacher student sex, female sexual predator, pregnancy, forbidden love, love and romance, against the rules, unlikely couple, sexual abuse, teachers and students, life is a bitch, legal, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The difficulties two sisters face raising their teenage daughters
Style:
realistic, captivating, sentimental, psychological, serious
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
family problems, coming of age, family relations, teenage life, family life, youth, obsession, hidden truth, parents and children, single parent, sisters, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style:
realistic, independent film, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, art teacher, age difference, performer's life, bittersweet, society, lifestyle, single parent ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
horse, father daughter reunion, youth, teenage life, parents and children, family life, family problems, family relations, single parent, love and romance, dysfunctional family, estrangement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Willard Young is a 10-year-old boy who is sent by his mother to stay with her best friend Lily Reed, who lives in the Delta shrimp-fishing country in a town called Paradise. Lily and her husband Ben have been living in an unmentioned emotional ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sad, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, bullying, love, friendship, coming of age, youth, death, loss of son, child's point of view, village, children, childhood love ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
315
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photoshop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, independent film, crying
Plot:
family relations, small town, love affair, teenage life, forbidden love, couples, love and romance, starting over, youth, parents and children, coming of age, love triangle ...
Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, teenage pregnancy, bowling, young couple, summer, bullying, teenager, child protagonist, star crossed lovers, grief, girl, teen angst ...
Time:
year 1961, year 1992, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
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