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Miss Juneteenth (2020)
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, aesthetic, black cinema
Plot:
cheerleader, teenage girl, american dream, single mother, beauty queen, african american, black, competition, freedom, daughter, breakup, talent show, money problems, overprotective mother, religion, women's rights, puppet, unplanned pregnancy, barmaid, bigger dreams, women, beauty pageant, black history, female bartender, teenager ...
Time:
2020s, year 2019, year 1865, year 2004
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Most similar movies to Miss Juneteenth
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about food, family relations, cigarette smoking, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, drinking and kiss mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Miss Juneteenth: Redwood Highway (2013), Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), One Night in Miami... (2020), Wildlife (2018), Down in the Delta (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Plot:
on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, escapades, introspection, estrangement, haunted by the past, hopes, redemption, parents and children, strong female presence, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, pacific ocean
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, social ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
indian reservation, american football, american indian, society, youth, family problems, social relations, death in the family, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nebraska, indiana, south dakota
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90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.
Style:
thought provoking, uplifting, suspense, political, sad ...
Plot:
plantation, black history, racism, black, african american, fight for justice, inequality, racial injustice, friendship between men, injustice, women, victory ...
Time:
60s, 2020s, year 1963, year 1964, year 1965
Place:
miami, georgia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of ...
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, teenage boy, unemployment, infidelity, cheerleader, unemployed, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, parents and children, fired from the job, marital separation, family relations ...
Time:
year 1960, 90s, 60s
Place:
montana, oklahoma city, sarajevo, portland oregon, idaho ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style:
touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
slavery, black, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, women of color, drug addiction, african american, storytelling, racism, solace, black girl, anti racism ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, chicago, indiana, usa, alabama ...
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship ...
Style:
visually stunning, touching, captivating, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
relationships, coma, korean american, small town, architecture, friendship, family relations, social problems, male female relationship, life is a bitch, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family life ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, year 1954, year 1950, year 2008
Place:
indiana, midwest
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic, spooky ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
curse, all black cast, witchcraft, coming of age, dysfunctional family, african american, black, blaxploitation, deep south, american south, doctor, incest ...
Time:
year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, new orleans, indiana, usa ...
Similarity:
59%
145
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his wife, a Cape Canaveral groupie at the time Bobby was with NASA. Now they have built up ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
televangelist, extramarital affair, faith, marriage, husband wife relationship, hypocrisy, infidelity, reverend, businessman, wealth, father son relationship, money ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, gay, culture clash, religion, teenage pregnancy, gay latino, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, glendale california, spain
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, youth, little boy, american football, family relations, family problems, social relations, innocence lost, small town life, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Style:
serious, tense, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
farm, betrayal, retirement home, parents and children, homecoming, uninhibited rivalry, danger, dishonesty, family problems, grudge, country, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
58%
124K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A Korean-American family moves to Arkansas in search of their own American Dream. With the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother, the stability of their relationships is challenged even more in this new life in the ...
Style:
sad, period piece, semi autobiographical, independent film, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
korean american, husband wife relationship, farmer, food, friendship, grandmother grandson relationship, farm, pain, heart condition, family relations, grandmother granddaughter relationship, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 2020s, future
Place:
arkansas, east asia, oklahoma city, nebraska
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, self discovery, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, unsupportive parent, artists and showbiz, inspiration, art, mentor, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2006, year 1974, year 1991, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, new york
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, adolescence, family bonds, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
california, budapest, europe, usa, austria ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
Style:
independent film, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
ghetto, african american, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, human nature, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, couple relations, family problems, slaughterhouse ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
los angeles, africa
Similarity:
54%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, prison, going straight, family problems, life is a bitch, prison life, love affair, confined, husband and wife, hot and sexy, husband wife relationship, cheating wife ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mississippi
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
Style:
sentimental, melancholic, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, memory loss, mother daughter relationship, snow, blizzard, lie, drinking, self discovery, introspection, drinking alcohol, family drama, grandfather granddaughter relationship ...
Place:
california, sacramento california, florida, illinois, chicago
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, gender, love and romance, elderly, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california, los angeles, miami
Similarity:
49%
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937
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
Style:
sad
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, mental disorder, young girl, coming of age, cross country, mentally challenged person, family relations, foster parent, mail, cat, lawyer, ambulance ...
Place:
reno nevada
Similarity:
49%
993
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy and a son who's lost his much-needed scholarship, an impoverished married couple begins to abandon their faith and courage in the face of such misfortune. But when a gifted young boy called ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hopes, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, youth, society, prodigy, dealing with death, single parent, disability, rich and poor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, manila philippines
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A poor girl, a rich stud, a university student and a model -- nothing in common, except the desire to experience true intimacy. Their stories unfold and overlap as each becomes victim to their own sexual dependencies, self-perceptions and illusions. ...
Style:
erotic, sincere, psychological, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
sexual relations, sexual abuse, male nudity, transvestite, male rape, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, teenage life, love and romance, life is a bitch, youth, human nature ...
Place:
bolivia, south america, latin america
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however,the pattern ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, hopes, loneliness, food, society, rich and poor, fall in love, haunted by the past, city life, sadness, survival, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, usa, barcelona, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
45%
216K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
van, homeless, motor home, on the road, loss of job, road trip, nomad, journey, desert, homelessness, skinny dipping, healing ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
nevada, nebraska, arizona
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
recovering drug addict, mother, massage, drug addict, drug, drug addiction, heroin, family relations, rehabilitation, parents and children, problem, mother and daughter ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his mother wages an escalating search effort above ground. Based on a true story and set ...
Style:
sincere, touching, melancholic, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
autism, self discovery, parents and children, teenage life, family relations, social misfits, youth, imagination, boy, little boy, subway, disability ...
Time:
year 1984, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
44%
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:
43%
15K
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, realistic, lyrical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, loneliness, suicide, bullying, teenage rape, self discovery, poetry, alzheimer's disease, teen suicide, existentialism, introspection, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
korea, japan, south korea, asia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, meditative, lyrical, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, boy, adolescence, father son relationship, friendship, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, death, social relations, society, hopes ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
Style:
psychological, realistic, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
foster home, sister sister relationship, released from prison, coming of age, juvenile delinquent, estranged father, black, haunted by the past, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, african american, birthday ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style:
offbeat, touching, emotional, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot:
best friend, college, friendship, friends, hopes, coming of age, youth, buddies, redemption, showbiz, partner, food ...
Time:
90s, year 1983, year 1996, 21st century
Place:
new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
Similarity:
40%
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