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Waves (2019)
37K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family — led by a well-intentioned but domineering father — as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.
Style:
social, psychological, sad, touching, suspense, sentimental, heartbreaking, serious, emotional, anthology ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
african american, father son relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, teenage pregnancy, coming of age, father daughter relationship, interracial romance, black, blaxploitation, passion, passionate love, love, family relations, teen romance, parents and children, grownups, jail, accidental killing, sports injury, hospital, church, teenage sex, male nudity, on the road, road trip ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
florida, missouri
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and crying films with plots about kiss, family relations, love, friendship, drinking, father son relationship and bare chested male mostly in Drama, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Waves: American Honey (2016), The Greatest (2009), Words on Bathroom Walls (2020), He Got Game (1998), Challengers (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Style:
road movie, disturbing, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, teenage girl, first love, misfit, teenage boy, supermarket, van, sex scene, on the road, adolescence, naked in public, motel ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017, 90s
Place:
oklahoma city, kansas city, america, oklahoma, nebraska ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out ...
Style:
touching, sincere, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, childhood sweetheart, teenage mother, loss of child, family relations, loss of son, crumbling marriage, youth, family problems, death in the family, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story follows a student navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia and battling wild hallucinations. An experimental drug trial promises to help hide his illness from his peers and, most importantly, from the girl of ...
Style:
realistic, romantic, touching, independent film, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
schizophrenia, teenager, romantic relationship, diagnosis, teenage protagonist, hearing voices, high school, first kiss, romanticism, hopes, love and romance, chance meeting ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, brazil
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Style:
inspirational, hood, captivating, touching, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
basketball, redemption, prison, college, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, hip hop, hopes, forgiveness, ghetto, black, released from prison ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous grand slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a “Challenger” event — close to the lowest level of pro ...
Style:
homoerotic, captivating, dramatic, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot:
tennis, love triangle, tennis player, bromance, threesome, rivalry, sauna, teenage boy, homoerotic friendship, sports injury, homoeroticism, bisexual man ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2019, year 2011, year 2007 ...
Place:
atlanta georgia, canada, ohio, indiana, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style:
teen, touching, sincere, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, youth, couples, teenage love, first love, teenage life, love, teenage girl, family relations, high school student, classmate ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, key west florida, new jersey, california
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
Style:
sad, captivating, touching, family comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
best friend, friends, terminal illness, cancer, friendship, husband wife relationship, family relations, assistant, coping, help, couples, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2012, year 2013, year 2008, year 2011 ...
Place:
new orleans, alabama, pakistan
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, teenage love, love story, youth, teenage life, first love, dealing with death, illness, adolescence ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, love and romance, loss of virginity, teenager in love, female friendship, teen romance, friendship, youth, wooing, teenage love ...
Time:
year 1992, 21st century
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, tennessee, yale university ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a ...
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
multiple sclerosis, football, disability, working class, love, aids, storytelling, friendship, soccer, infidelity, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
england, europe, paris france, new orleans, ireland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, haunted by the past, mysterious character, hopes, youth, small town, rescue, death of father, accidental death, psychiatrist, drowning, lost love ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, young lovers, parents and children, troubled teen, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, loner, amor ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
Style:
inspirational, social, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sex scene, african american, racism, prison, love story, love, dating, pregnant woman, injustice, black american, wrongful conviction, pregnancy ...
Time:
2010s, 70s
Place:
puerto rico, new york, harlem, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york city
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young African-American couple navigates the tricky paths of romance and athletics in this drama. Quincy McCall (Omar Epps) and Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, intense, touching, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, high school, true love, best friends in love, friendship, black, african american, relationships, love, coming of age, women, love story ...
Time:
80s, year 1993, year 2000, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, italy, barcelona ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at ...
Style:
erotic, captivating, touching, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, lesbian, lgbt, bisexual girl, teenage girl, lesbian teen, novelist, first lesbian experience, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, tomboy, aunt niece relationship, dating ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1992, 90s, 19th century, 1850s ...
Place:
illinois, chicago, south carolina
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, coming of age, love, memory, nostalgia, friendship, suicide, regret, summer, reminiscence, homecoming, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
new jersey, philadelphia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, teen, crying, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, friendship, high school, self discovery, teenager, nostalgia, death, skinny dipping, elopement, teen angst, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1971, year 1952 ...
Place:
texas, usa, oklahoma, midwest, north america ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style:
touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, family relations, best friend, terminal illness, pregnancy, tragic hero, couples, family problems, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
Movie in collections
162K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws ...
Style:
sad, romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, 9/11, relationships, death in the family, family drama, love, suicide, young love, loss of sibling, love and romance, dealing with death, death ...
Time:
year 2010, september 11 2001, 2010s, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
new york, iran, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, scenic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, love story, enemies to lovers, hospital, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1989, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, south carolina
Similarity:
37%
20K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life, as Henry and Anna realise their seriously ill teenage daughter Milla has fallen madly in love with a drug dealer, Moses. This ...
Style:
sad, touching, romantic, sweet, indie film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
first love, beach, coming of age, family relations, telephone call, dog, swimming pool, pills, hospital, love, defloration, teenager ...
Place:
australia, mexico, new zealand
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The true story about a father struggling to make amends with his twin sons as they pursue their dreams of professional baseball.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, anamorphic ...
Plot:
baseball, redemption, parents and children, introspection, family problems, estrangement, small town, addiction, dream, going straight, rocky mountains, twins ...
Place:
usa, phoenix arizona, colorado, arizona
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Morgan is the inspiring story of Morgan Oliver, a young athlete determined that a bicycle accident that left him paralyzed will not change him. He takes a chance on love when he meets Dean Kagen on a basketball court. Dean helps Morgan train for the ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, touching, psychological, rough, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, gay athlete, paraplegic, lgbtq, disability, love, gay sex, paralysis, handicapped, gay lead character, gay romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Benjamin Morton's life changed forever the day he met the little girl next door. Ava was and always would be the girl of his dreams. From the innocence of a childhood friendship, through adolescent attraction, their love strengthens and grows. ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
best friends in love, cancer, childhood friend, relationships, childhood love, french girl, car accident, romantic relationship, couples, tragic event, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, depression, dysfunctional family, couple relations, lust, husband wife relationship, passion, crumbling marriage, sexual content, lovers, love story, sex ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, brooklyn new york city, florida
Similarity:
37%
98K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style:
depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
single father, redemption, death, cancer, terminal illness, parenthood, immigrant, birthday, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, south america, iran, senegal ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a ...
Style:
sexy, touching, emotional, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, self discovery, teenage life, love and romance, dysfunctional relationship, sexual awakening, runaway, youth, menage a trois, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
australia, new south wales, california, new zealand
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
true love, cancer, infidelity, family relations, hopes, betrayal, couples, danger, dishonesty, human nature, survival, terminal illness ...
Place:
poland, nova scotia, europe, holland, canada
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. ...
Style:
emotional, serious, psychological, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
sex education, pregnancy, murder, teenage pregnancy, cheerleader, american football, high school student, family problems, teenage life, investigation, babies and infants, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2006
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Singapore
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, independent film, sad, touching ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
depression, disabled person, disability, sex, illegal fistfight, orca, ex boxer, amputee, relationships, family drama, opposites attract, redemption ...
Time:
2010s, y2k, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, south of france, french riviera, europe ...
Similarity:
37%
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