Movies like Mamitas
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Mamitas (2011)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenager in Echo Park deals with the loss of his mother and his attraction to a girl not considered "cool" by his friends.
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological, light, independent film, serious
Plot:
coming of age, teenage love, youth, high school, couples, teenage life, social relations, friendship, self discovery, society, homeless, poverty, manhood, love and romance, high school life, school, college, ice, past, coach, hospital, beer, girl, bus, mirror ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Most similar movies to Mamitas
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about youth, teenage life, coming of age, society, friendship, friends and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Mamitas: Don't Let Me Drown (2009), The Fat Boy Chronicles (2010), Ricochet River (2001), Being 14 (2015), Whatever (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The Fat Boy Chronicles is a motion picture about Jimmy Winterpock, an obese high-school student who deals with bullying and trying to lose weight. The film is inspired by a true story and was released in 2010 as a major motion picture.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fat boy, teenage love, human spirit, bullying, hopes, misfit, high school, society, win over, follow your dream, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, interracial relations, culture clash, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, best friend, on the road, small town, society, social misfits, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
100%
211
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, life is a bitch, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style:
realistic, independent film, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, art teacher, age difference, performer's life, bittersweet, society, lifestyle, single parent ...
Time:
year 1998, 80s, future, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teachers and students, high school, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, rivalry, society, fraud, teacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style:
realistic, emotional, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, society, youth, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jonah Brand (John Patrick Amedori) isn't necessarily the type of guy who would interest ultra-hot Sara Weller (Lizzy Caplan). But when she and her friends find out he works at a pharmacy, they charm him into their circle and gain his trust with ...
Style:
emotional, serious, independent film, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love triangle, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, life is a bitch, family relations, kids in trouble, teenage life, drug abuse, youth, drug dealing, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, surprise ending
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
brother sister relationship, hardship, coming of age, high school prom, poverty, library, high school student, caught stealing, teenage protagonist, death of friend, factory, police department ...
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
100%
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, childhood, teenager, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
100%
659
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:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, power relations, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, hopes, society, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
966
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, fall in love, couple relations, self discovery, teenage life, small town life, teenage love, best friend, human nature, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, south carolina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.
Style:
touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
bullying, found footage, childhood friend, coming of age, friendship, love, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, couples, teenage life, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Style:
contemplative, sentimental, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, memory loss, teenage love, love triangle, self discovery, fall in love, social relations, youth, couples, society, amnesia, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, usa, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school, Milton Academy in 2004-05 school year.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
preparatory school, high school, scandal, teenage life, social relations, high school life, youth, friendship, family relations, love and romance, couples, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Paul's homosexual affair at Bible College with a new student named Alex sets tongues wagging, mostly with un-Christian reactions. The dean, himself a closet case, threatens to expel Paul, and the football jocks have their eye on Alex. The ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
gay, couples, gender, college, lgbt, incest, gays and lesbians, love and romance, youth, teenage love, friendship, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
355
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, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
100%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, single parent, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, youth, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friends, lifestyle, youth, society, friendship, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, love and romance, society, pregnancy, youth, hopes, coming of age, road not taken, small town, wooing, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
740
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, touching, sad
Plot:
family relations, single parent, haunted by the past, parents and children, youth, social relations, suburbs, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, teenager, boat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic
Plot:
high school life, coming of age, family relations, fall in love, divorce, husband wife conflict, brother brother relationship, teenage life, society, friendship, friends, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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, psychological, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, female friendship, coming of age, personal growth, character study, society, couples, small town, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jake Taylor has everything. He has a beautiful girl, he's the champion in basketball and beer pong, and everyone loves him. Then, an old childhood friend, whom Jake used to be friends with, commits suicide. Jake begins to think. He wonders what ...
Style:
christian film, contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
religious, christian, faith, friendship, high school, bittersweet, social relations, social differences, self discovery, friends, high school life, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four high school students are led into the world of adult vices by their guidance counselor, a shadowy, suicidal millionaire.
Style:
grindhouse, entertaining, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, suicide attempt, high school, school, teachers and students, high school life, siblings relations, teenage love, college life, college, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, follow your dream, teenage life, family business, society, youth, hopes, human spirit, workplace, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tony Luke, Jr. stars as Joey Nardone, an out-of-shape boxer, who after 8 years in prison for an unfortunate accident leaves prison and gets a shot at redemption by fighting for one young boy's future - 14 year old Jesus.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
teenage life, redemption, friendship, youth, rivalry, starting over, hopes, coming of age, profanity, boxing, violent content, sexual content ...
Place:
usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
875
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, thought provoking, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
asthma, friendship, high school, teenager, adolescence, musician's life, lifestyle, against the odds, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society ...
Time:
90s, 80s, future
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, california ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Film spin-off of Nickelodeon's popular teen program Degrassi.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, friends, rivalry, youth, couples, couple relations, vengeance, infidelity, high school, party, drunken sex ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
470
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
High school senior Michael (the son of a preacher and a Christian) is the new guy in a small town still reeling from a high school basketball star's unforeseen suicide of a year ago.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, independent film, christian film ...
Plot:
high school, cheerleader, christian, basketball, teenage life, friends, youth, high school life, foe turned friend, bittersweet, social relations, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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