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Slingshot (2005)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Style:
serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sentimental, touching, exciting, light, captivating ...
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, fall in love, dysfunctional family, breakup, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, couple relations, missing child, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, cons and scams, cheating wife, age-gap relationship, ice hockey, suburbs, womanizer, older woman younger man relationship, youth, friends, on the road, love and romance, best friends, family problems ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york, connecticut
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and gloomy films with plots about love and romance, couples, sex, family relations, infidelity, husband wife relationship and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Slingshot: Other Voices (2000), Love the Hard Way (2001), Charlotte Sometimes (2002), Tart (2001), Earthly Possessions (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Phil and Anna are a young, married couple, who begin to suspect one other of an affair. When a shady private investigator gets involved in their relationship, things begin to spin out of control, in this turn-of-the-millennium thriller.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, private detective, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, breakup, city life, love and romance, couple relations, stalking, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, bleak, romantic ...
Plot:
couples, dishonesty, love and romance, cons and scams, student life, destructive relationship, college, lie, dancing, police, friend, secret ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate.
Style:
sincere, sexy, captivating, light, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, friendship, love and romance, unfulfilled love, youth, lifestyle, infidelity, nightclub, aunt nephew relationship, young lovers, unfulfillment, gender ...
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage girl, dysfunctional family, coming of age, friends, school, girls' school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, high school life, teenage love, private school, rich girl ...
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A bored wife, who is planning to run away from her minister husband, is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to helping the younger robber escape his pursuers. As ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, captivating, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, hostage, escape, on the road, heist, pregnancy, love and romance, money, bank, suspense, kidnapping, kidnapped ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico
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43%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita (Tyne Daly) predicts that one of the three couples present at the party will break up by the ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
breakup, family relations, ghost, introspection, looking for love, couples, dull life, family problems, love and romance, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, supernatural ability ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
357
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients.
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serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
couples, partners, love and romance, love affair, cons and scams, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, theft, thief, artwork, parents and children, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, midlife crisis, starting over, love triangle, breakup, working class, dysfunctional family, love affair, human nature, hopes, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
washington state, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, small town, youth, teenage life, social relations, drugs, police, harvest, boy, couples, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
meditative, psychological, surreal, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
obsession, couples, suicide attempt, philosophy, loneliness, family relations, love affair, life turned upside down, marriage, crumbling marriage, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1951, 21st century
Place:
new york, paris france, connecticut, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. ...
Style:
emotional, stylized, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, cheating wife, betrayal, lust, cheating, forbidden love, character study ...
Place:
england, europe, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they ...
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psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, love and romance, youth, couples, couple relations, teenage life, teenager, love, male female relationship, violence, jealousy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's ...
Style:
melancholic, meditative, depressing, heartbreaking, lyrical ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
depression, dysfunctional family, small town, teenage love, small town life, life philosophy, loneliness, family problems, first love, parents and children, abusive husband, young love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
native american, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, last wish, parents and children, indigenous people, coming of age, starting over, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
791
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a family whose growth is stunted... a family that learns how to love themselves while loving each other (a little too much).
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, gay, family relations, family problems, eccentric family, siblings relations, dark humor, disorder, gender, dishonesty, parents and children, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Films like Blue Valentine
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
betrayal, couple relations, haunted by the past, love triangle, love affair, hidden identity, unfulfillment, dishonesty, infidelity, lovers reunited, murder, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida, new york, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renee leads a fulfilling life as a professor of theater, mother of two girls, and wife to a kind and successful husband. Her life of contentment is changed forever when she discovers an undeniable attraction between herself and a female graduate ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sexual content, lesbian, family relations, college, infidelity, love and romance, forbidden love, lesbian relationship, couples, crumbling marriage, human nature, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Style:
dark, realistic, sincere, melancholic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, older woman younger man relationship, dull life, mental illness, dysfunctional marriage, suicide, workplace, infidelity, adultery, depression, dark humor, lie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, california, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style:
talky, intense, stylized, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
abusive husband, starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, couple relations, human nature, parents and children, love affair, life is a bitch, self discovery, couples ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, new york state, haiti ...
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39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
Style:
neo noir, serious, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
cons and scams, crime gone awry, couples, murder, betrayal, small town, drug dealer, inheritance, sheriff, love and romance, suspense, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
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39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style:
serious, dark, tense, rough, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, school, gangsters, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, ghetto, social decay, teenage love, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's ...
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serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating, anthology
Plot:
family relations, love and romance, couple relations, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, human nature, introspection, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, youth, hopes, estrangement ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and ...
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serious, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
infidelity, hopes, prostitute, love and romance, social decay, fall in love, looking for love, dysfunctional family, single parent, womanizer, life is a bitch, downfall ...
Place:
spain, europe, uruguay, barcelona, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, church, love affair, investigation, fall in love, infidelity, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, love and romance, dishonesty, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
331
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
Style:
talky, semi serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
marriage, mental disorder, suburban life, pregnancy, relationship vs career, suburbs, midlife crisis, breakup, dysfunctional family, couple relations, infidelity, human nature ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Style:
sexy, touching, romantic, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
cheating wife, infidelity, hippie, bittersweet, coming of age, love affair, summer vacation, oral sex, erotica, family relations, sex in car, skinny dipping ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Julie discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes. This is a story of ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, clever, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, self discovery, friendship, lifestyle, follow your dream, forbidden love, lgbt, feminism, human nature, love and romance, couples, road not taken ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The late 1940s. Richard Langley, a bachelor playboy, narrates a story that starts when his best friend, Harry Allen, invites him to lunch to tell Richard he's in love. Trouble is, Harry's already married to Pat; he worries Pat would be ...
Style:
stylized, melancholic, talky, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
relationships, friendship, fall in love, love story, jealousy, adultery, crumbling marriage, love and romance, love triangle, love affair, infidelity, male female relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1931, year 1947, year 1949, 70s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and ...
Style:
humorous, touching, witty, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, irish, gangsters, justice, unlikely friendships, eccentricity, multiple storylines, couple relations, love and romance, existentialism, heist, male female relationship ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Barbara Hoffman is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling has to do is prove it.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, winter, christmas, deception, prostitute, snow, suspense, sex ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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