Movies like The College Admissions Scandal

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The College Admissions Scandal (2019)
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The College Admissions Scandal (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two wealthy mothers, Caroline, a sought after interior designer and Bethany, an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, lawyer, musician, college, fbi, alcoholic, girlfriend, mother, father, mansion, swimming pool, money laundering, brother, cell phone, daughter, tutor, law firm, soccer coach, son, arrest, extortion, soccer, sister, boyfriend, bribe ...
Place: yale university

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, independent film and disturbing films with plots about teenager, mother, family relations, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, daughter and teenage life mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The College Admissions Scandal: Subwave (1995), Don't Make Me Go (2022), Different Eye (2017), Troubled Child (2012), Unwed Father (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Subwave (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last ...
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Don't Make Me Go (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, teen, road movie
Audience: teen drama
Plot: road trip, terminal illness, father, teenager, life is a bitch, single father, family relations, illness, father and daughter, single parent, teenage girl, search for mother ...
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Different Eye (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Julia and her fiancé Mark's world is shattered when they find themselves with conservator-ship of Maria, a young woman with Downs Syndrome. Can Maria teach Julia to find the beauty in life's ups and downs, or will Julia and Mark's ...
Plot: family relations, heartbreak, down syndrome, promise, lawyer, father, mother, love, marriage
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Troubled Child (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspired by true-life events, this is the sobering story of the Williams family and their process of coping with an adopted child suffering from Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: son, problem child, child protagonist, adoption, mother, treatment, disorder, therapy, children, family relations, trauma, boarder ...
Place: nebraska
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Unwed Father (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking
Audience: teens
Plot: single father, babies and infants, adoption, teen social issues, couples, environmentalism, family relations, family problems, love and romance, music band, youth, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: texas
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Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious
Plot: mentally challenged, disability, lifestyle, family relations, couples, dysfunctional family, family life, misfit, love and romance, family problems, siblings relations, bus ...
Time: 21st century
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The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Naturally-gifted cheerleader Ava is an instant hit at her new school, but her quick rise in popularity is threatened by the rivalry of cheer captain and Homecoming Queen Katrina, who puts Ava and the other new recruits through a brutal initiation ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sincere
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleader, fight, parents and children, society, friendship, teenager, ambition, rivalry, family relations, adaptation, dishonesty, youth ...
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Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two suicidal teenagers, Conrad and Michelle, turn to each other for support, communicating via text messages. But when Conrad expresses his desire to end his life, instead of trying to stop him as she had previously, Michelle encourages Conrad to ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: unrequited love, teen suicide, courtroom drama, tragic love, suicide, teenage life, teenager, forced suicide, forced into action, teen romance, unfulfilled love, manipulation ...
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All the Wilderness (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a charismatic new friend and a quirky young woman begin to draw him out of his shell.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, teenage life, teenage boy, family relations, coming of age, self discovery, single parent, youth, therapist, mother son relationship, problem, boyhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A Sort of Homecoming (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Sort of Homecoming tells the story of Amy, a New York news producer who thought she left her high school experiences long in the past. She unexpectedly returns to Louisiana at the request of her high school debate coach. Their strained reunion ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: childhood memory, school, teenager, debate, memory, teenage girl, memories, schoolgirl, getting home, problem, teenage life, student athlete
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The Good Son (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bonjour tristesse: Teenager Luc lives with his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul in Paris, has to cope with the fact that his mother is a prostitute and practically raise his brother alone. Luc is disillusioned. One day, little Paul wants ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, friendship, teenage boy, romantic friendship, family relations, love affair, relationships, teenage life, love story, teenage love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love interest ...
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L.A. Law: The Movie (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years since the series ended, the founding senior partner, Leland McKenzie, has retired and left Douglas ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, psychological
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Mommy's Secret (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a teenage girl discovers her own mother is behind the recent rash of nearby bank robberies, she's determined to help her come clean.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bag Full of Hearts (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Many years brings the collective-farm postman Arina post to home folks. This village in one corner is calledl; Chistuy Kolodets; in other ; Chistaya Krinitsa Russians and Ukrainians live there. Arina's stories about village people and the ...
Plot: teacher, mother, son, daughter, boyfriend, postman, village, officer, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband, kolkhoz ...
Place: soviet union
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A Death of Innocence (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
Plot: daughter, mother, mother daughter relationship, trial, murder, footprint
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Life Inside Out (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.
Style: sincere, captivating, independent film
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Way Off Broadway (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Way Off Broadway is the story of five friends who, frustrated by the abrupt juxtaposition of being successful artists on the university level to poor struggling artists in New York City, take a crash course in life as they explore the dynamic of ...
Style: independent film
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions. She joins the Spades and becomes friends with the Spades’ leader, an enigmatic and scheming cheerleader named Selah.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, tense ...
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The Good Fight (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Grace Cragin is a bright young lawyer who has a passion for the fight against injustice. Her ex-husband Henry is a lawyer too, but his passion is only to win. The two were divorced ten years earlier when Henry's lust for conquest led him to ...
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Garden Party (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Are you young, sexually confused, just trying to get by? Do you sing, dance or possess some other talent? Welcome to the Garden Party. At the center of the story is 15-year-old April. She is running from one bad situation into another, hoping to ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexy, indie film ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
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A Journey Through Pines (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological
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Levelland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A coming-of-age drama, with skateboards, set in Texas.
Style: crying
Audience: teens
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Audience: teens
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The Homefront (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright works as a house painter. One family he paints a house for has a problem he can relate to: Elaine, a woman who hired him, left his husband J.P., also a Vietnam vet while he was in 'Nam, and J.P. became an ...
Style: independent film
Plot: house painter, vietnam war, commitment, alcoholic, family relations, vietnam veteran, waitress, alcoholism, parent child relationship, guitarist, post war, mansion ...
Place: beverly hills, los angeles
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, realistic, clever ...
Audience: teens, family outing
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Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
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Palo Alto (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to ...
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, serious, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: california, palo alto california, britain, usa
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All We Had (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A mother struggles to make a better life for her daughter.
Style: independent film
Plot: mother, food, restaurant, hardship, chef, daughter, girl, mother daughter relationship, broker, poverty, stealing, transgender ...
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