Movies like X/Y

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X/Y (2014)
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X/Y (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sexy, sincere, touching, serious, independent film, erotic
Plot: friends, city life, friendship, understanding, family relations, society, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend, sex, best friends
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, britain

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about friends, society, friendship, family relations, youth, urban and hopes mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like X/Y: Groove (2000), Not Waving But Drowning (2012), Quiet City (2007), Choking Man (2006), The Dry Land (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Groove (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
Style: independent film, atmospheric, intense, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: rave, drug dealing, lifestyle, drug, fish out of water, nightlife, bisexual, city life, dj, gay, party, drug use ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, new york, california
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100%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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46%
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Quiet City (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, light ...
Plot: friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, society, love, party, girlfriend, hipster, human relationship, human nature, lifestyle ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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42%
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Choking Man (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: immigrant, city life, friendship, self discovery, restaurant, diner, workplace romance, workplace, family relations, social misfits, lonely, urban ...
Place: usa, new york
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41%
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The Dry Land (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Style: realistic, contemplative, sentimental, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, soldier, homecoming, society, redemption, family life, buddies, life is a bitch, parents and children, husband wife relationship, psychopath, ptsd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, el paso texas
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About Alex (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A circle of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to console a suicidal member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences ...
Style: independent film, inspirational, atmospheric, surreal, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, suicide attempt, depression, relationships, suicide, friends, group of friends, life philosophy, writer's block, anxiety, introspection, college graduate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state, new york
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100%
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Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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28%
The Last Rites of Joe May (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: redemption, family relations, aging, father son relationship, self discovery, con artists, bittersweet, friends, single parent, elderly, pneumonia, hustler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois, chicago
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24%
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The Citizen (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: american dream, starting over, immigrant, society, hopes, 9/11, rivalry, arab, legal, lawyer, urban, city ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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24%
I Travel Alone (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, youth, friends, society, couples, nordic, twentysomething life, student life, night ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe
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23%
She's Lost Control (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, sexy ...
Plot: sexual relations, life turned upside down, prostitute, sex scene, women, sex, female protagonist, couples, society, sexuality, woman, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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22%
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Five Star (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, society, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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22%
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Life Support (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, hiv, drug abuse, lifestyle, going straight, friendship, drug addict, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, society ...
Place: new york, usa
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22%
Just Like the Son (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, foster home, boy ...
Place: new york, usa, texas
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22%
Return to Ithaca (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
Style: realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: homecoming, introspection, friendship, friends, society, novelist, exile, reunion
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: cuba
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21%
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Newlyweds (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family relations, couples, city life, siblings relations, friendship, society, wedding, dysfunctional family, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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21%
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Toe to Toe (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lacrosse, friendship, teenage life, self discovery, coming of age, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, female bonding, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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21%
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Face (2002)
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, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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21%
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Breakfast with Curtis (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Syd is an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine. He caused a rift 5 years ago between his bohemian housemates and the family next door, but now tries to recruit his 14-year-old neighbor as a collaborator.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, friends, drug, teenage boy, coming of age, death threat, depression, love and romance, love, couples, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Plot: social misfits, lgbt, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy
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21%
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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21%
The Stick Up Kids (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, gang, friends, buddies, criminal's revenge, urban ghetto life, dishonesty, society, cons and scams, black, african american, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
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21%
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Hide Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
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Amexicano (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, friendship, social differences, human nature, society, deportation, culture clash, working class, unemployment, interracial friendship, unrequited love, unlikely hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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20%
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How I Got Lost (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: HOW I GOT LOST is the heartbreaking yet hopeful story of Andrew and Jake, two friends dealing with loss amidst events bigger than them. Andrew is the friend we all have, the one who convinces you to come along despite your better judgment. Talented ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative
Plot: self discovery, friendship, hopes, parents and children, buddies, introspection, best friend, on the road, estrangement, starting over, nothing to lose, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia, new york, ohio
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20%
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True Friends (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York, The Bronx, 1980. Two Italian boys Joey Esposito and Louie Mazerino jump to the defence of a smaller Puerto Rican boy, J.J. Lopez, when J.J. is threatened by six schoolyard bullies. The three boys soon become best friends, and they always ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious
Plot: friendship, urban ghetto, friends, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, ambition, youth, drug dealing, going straight, buddies, coming of age, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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20%
Mother of George (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, couple relations, society, couples, lifestyle, afrofuturism, african, trying to get pregnant, family relations, female protagonist, parents and children, cultural difference ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, africa
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20%
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Copperhead (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Style: realistic, tense, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: american civil war, anti war, family life, society, life is a bitch, farm, civil war, danger, relationships, intrigue, family relations, wartime life
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
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20%
 7.6
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Hated (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are what a young underground punk band are striving for, but once they get a taste of it, they are forced to decide how far they're willing to go for fame and fortune and who they're willing to leave ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: desire for fame, rise and fall, friendship, music band, youth, artists and showbiz, friends, showbiz, unfulfillment, music, punk, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Storm in Summer (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley ...
Style: sincere, touching, uplifting, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: uncle nephew relationship, racism, interracial relations, friendship, society, odd couple, family life, youth, friends, couples, family relations, grudge ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, new york
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20%
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