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The Third Wife (2018)
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The Third Wife (2018)
Original name: Vợ ba
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.
Style: psychological, suspense, rough, thought provoking, touching, unusual plot structure, independent film, visual, extraordinary
Plot: arranged marriage, teenage girl, childhood, sex with stepmother, teenager, family relations, fiancee, girl, countryside, lesbian, youth, parents and children, destiny, life is a bitch, society, wedding planning, dishonesty, women, eye, woman, existentialism, coming of age, landowner, cheating wife, sex scene ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: vietnam
Keyword: vietnamese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about teenager, family relations, youth, parents and children, coming of age, teenage girl and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Third Wife: Nude Area (2014), Mickey and the Bear (2019), Electrick Children (2012), Natasha (2015), Miriam Lies (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nude Area (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Naomi, a fifteen year-old Dutch girl from South-Amsterdam, develops a crush on a beautiful Arabic girl of the same age living in the poor quarters of Amsterdam West. During one magical summer in Amsterdam, the two girls play an emotional chess game ...
Style: melancholic, psychological, touching, sexy, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: love, lgbt, lesbian interest, lesbian love, teenager, female nudity, teenage girl, teenage love, gay love, lesbian relationship, gays and lesbians, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Mickey and the Bear (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: teenage girl, father daughter relationship, addiction, teenager, incest, war veteran, family relations, father daughter incest, life is a bitch, parents and children, rural setting, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
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Electrick Children (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Electrick Children tells the story of Rachel, a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, ...
Style: serious, sentimental, independent film, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage pregnancy, coming of age, pregnancy, family relations, self discovery, religions or cults, religious fundamentalism, teenage life, unwanted pregnancy, lifestyle, parents and children, nobody believes ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 21st century
Place: utah, las vegas, nevada, usa
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Natasha (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman ...
Style: erotic, touching, unusual plot structure, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, teenage sexuality, teenage boy, first love, teenager, teenage protagonist, fall in love, youth, family relations, love, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada
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Miriam Lies (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: teenage girl, coming of age, lie, family relations, family drama, mother daughter relationship, teenager, middle class, love, couples, youth, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 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, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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
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Bi, Don't Be Afraid (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In an old house in Hanoi, Bi, a 6-year-old child lives with his parents, his aunt and their cook. His favorite playgrounds are an ice factory and the wild grass along the river. After being absent for years, his grandfather, seriously ill, reappears ...
Style: psychological, touching, atmospheric, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: childhood, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, family problems, crumbling marriage, youth, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
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47%
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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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Jinn (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Summer is a carefree teenage girl whose world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person. At first resistant to the faith, she begins to reevaluate her identity after becoming attracted to a ...
Style: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: woman, coming of age, religious conversion, desire, mother, daughter, teenager, faith, youth, society, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Mad World (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this independent drama, writer-director Cory Cataldo explores the pain of adolescence with dark and disturbing results. Facing the pitfalls of high school with no support from their parents and teachers, a foursome of ostracized teenagers (Gary ...
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: bullying, abusive parent, high school, hate, teenager, teen suicide, racism, coming of age, overweight, helplessness, life is a bitch, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Rocks (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspense, rough, social
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage protagonist, coming of age, little brother, homeless, life is a bitch, grownups, absent mother, friendship, society, nothing goes right ...
Place: london
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The Buffalo Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. ...
Style: touching, contemplative, serious, realistic
Plot: boy, father son relationship, corpse, poverty, family relations, society, introspection, youth, self discovery, forces of nature, parents and children, occupation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, indochina, asia
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46%
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Lemonade (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. When the process of ...
Style: suspense, rough, sentimental, tense, psychological ...
Plot: mother son relationship, green card, abuse of power, marriage, culture clash, society, escapades, dishonesty, life is a bitch, family relations, love, violence ...
Place: usa
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Do it Right (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenage boy, teenage girl, school, high school, death of mother, youth, parents and children, society, mother son relationship, love and romance ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: paris france
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Matted (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
Story: Rose Lee is just a typical high school student trying to figure things out. Her dream is to join the boy's wrestling team, but no one is making it easy for her. Along the way, she'll discover that her most difficult opponent may be herself.
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, teenage girl, girl, friendship, transgender, teenage boy, teacher, school, student, small town, father daughter relationship, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
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: serious, touching, realistic, gloomy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family problems, life is a bitch, youth, social relations, teenage life, high school life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy girl relationship, family relations, friends ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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45%
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The Saver (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: teenage girl, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, teenage protagonist, cleaning lady, life is a bitch, orphan, society, millionaire, youth, money, new life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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The Pregnancy Project (2012)
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: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, teenage life, high school, family relations, youth, dishonesty, parents and children, teachers and students, teenage pregnancy, teenager, teaching, teen social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
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Hala (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Meet 17-year-old Hala, who struggles to balance being a suburban teenager with her traditional Muslim upbringing. As she comes into her own, Hala finds herself grappling with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, inspirational
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, muslim girl, muslim woman, muslim, religious conflict, teenage sexuality, religion, family relations, teenager, secret, girl, social problems ...
Time: year 2019
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Before the Rooster Crows (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot: coming of age, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, living with parents, teenage life, family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, love interest ...
Place: puerto rico
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The Holy Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the ...
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot: teenage girl, virginity, perversion, doctor, youth, love and romance, society, couple relations, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, sin ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: argentina, usa, los angeles
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45%
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In Bloom (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, transgressive ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, best friend, civil war, society, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, youth, teenage life, parents and children, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: soviet union, georgia, tbilisi, asia, europe ...
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Rebounce (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar Salim, and despite being only 16 years old she portrays toughness, charm, and vulnerability ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, rough, psychological ...
Plot: age difference, coming of age, parents and children, teenage life, drug abuse, family relations, family problems, youth, dysfunctional family, adolescence vs adulthood, mother, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, scandinavia, europe
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45%
All Is Forgiven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, redemption, teenager, parents and children, addiction, crumbling marriage, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
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My Skinny Sister (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anorexia, mental illness, eating disorder, teenage girl, family relations, siblings relations, sisterhood, kids in trouble, youth, parents and children, mental disorder, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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45%
Cider with Rosie (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: village, coming of age, world war one, childhood, society, youth, friendship, village life, teenager, military police, anti war, girl ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, europe
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45%
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Adrift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, touching, teen ...
Plot: infidelity, beach house, coming of age, teenage sexuality, father daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, parent child relationship, family problems, dishonesty, love, youth ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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45%
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Jess + Moss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, farm, self discovery, teenage life, friendship, love and romance, society, smoking, teenager, childhood, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
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The Devil in the Skin (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Coming-of-Age drama telling the story of the strong bond between Xavier and his little brother Jacques and their struggle to remain together despite all odds.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, rebelliousness, forceful separation, summer, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, childhood, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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