Movies like Year of the Nail
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Year of the Nail (2007)
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Original name: Año uña
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, touching, serious, experimental, sexual
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, couples, teenage life, unfulfilled love, hopes, friendship, society, male female relationship, youth, love and romance, loss of virginity, looking for sex, love, teenager, interracial love, photograph, woman, older woman younger man relationship, american woman, romance
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
mexico, latin america, american
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Most similar movies to Year of the Nail
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, youth, coming of age, love, fall in love and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Year of the Nail: Falling Like This (2001), In Between Days (2006), The Empty Hours (2013), Radhaamadhavam (2024), Love is the Word (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, couples, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, on the run, youth, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
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, Romance
Country: Spain, France, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The second film from Aarón Fernández is a Spain-Mexico-France co-production already screened as part of Films in Progress at the 60th edition of the Festival. On the desolate coast of Veracruz, young Sebastián, 17, has to run his uncle's ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, female nudity, older woman younger man, love and romance, teenage love, youth, teenage life, seduction, motel, seaside, couples, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Madhava's love life troubles him for his life goals accomplishment, How will he achive his goal along with his partner ?
Style:
realistic, sincere, romantic drama, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
relationships, love, husband wife relationship, couple relations, fall in love, couples, friends, friendship, love and romance, love affair, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, first love, first sexual experience, love and romance, youth, family relations, hopes, village, parents and children, teenager, age difference, teenage sex ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
city life, couples, society, immigrant, redemption, friendship, youth, love, love story, family relations, age difference, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the loss of his mother has sucked the joie de vivre out of him; his best friend Alice knows it ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, starting over, love and romance, hopes, teenage life, couples, human nature, family problems, gays and lesbians, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
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%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young girl named Ann moves with her mother to her mother's hometown after her parents go through a divorce. There, Ann meets her first love Daigo Kitamura. Daigo helps her get used to life in the country. Ann even gets through her ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, family problems, death in the family, small town, youth, couples, family relations, classmate, friendship, school, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love and romance, hopes, lovers reunited, fall in love, coming of age, teenage life, interracial relations, hotshot lawyer, wish come true, couples, youth, college ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
100%
224
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Loving husband Lino is on a mission: His wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers wh make their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, tagalog ...
Plot:
missing person, fall in love, couples, infidelity, couple relations, society, dangerous attraction, love and romance, travel, wife, woman, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, the philippines, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
female nudity, coming of age, love, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, family relations, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, parent child relationship, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
adoption, couple relations, family relations, society, hopes, city life, love, rivalry, indian woman, culture shock, spirituality, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, kolkata
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, love and romance, couples, family problems, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Mexico, Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
On a lark in Tijuana, a carefree Brazilian art student crosses paths with a brooding Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil. As Dolores and Damián discover an intimate love and a mysterious spiritual ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, serious, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot:
impossible love, looking for sex, couple relations, self discovery, journalism, love and romance, estrangement, religions or cults, fall in love, destiny, love, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, brazil, latin america, san diego california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, forbidden love, love, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, farm, male female relationship, post war, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by sending her to Canada. The story remarks the difference ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, poverty, wealth, social differences, forbidden love, against the odds, young lovers, youth, society, fall in love, parents and children, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico city, mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory, twins, patient, terminal illness, hospital, couples, family problems, family relations, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A man recounts his life in Beijing during the 1980s and reminisces about the one truth that allowed him to endure.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, first love, fall in love, love and romance, aging, teenage life, destiny, couples, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since ...
Style:
captivating, serious, emotional, touching, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, optimism, protecting from truth, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, hopes, human spirit, fall in love, love and romance, village, letter, dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
568
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young boy from a working-class family and a bored young girl from a rich family are falling in love. Soon, she's pregnant and the teenagers have to escape from their disapproving parents.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, teenage love, on the run, forbidden love, social differences, couples, lifestyle, youth, young lovers, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
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%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
Style:
realistic, touching, sweet, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
love triangle, self discovery, coming of age, couples, youth, lifestyle, college, love, friendship, asian, introvert, superhero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, love, deaf, starting over, boarding school, dealing with death, youth, single parent, hopes, love and romance, couples, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love affair, taxi, couples, society, misfit, politics, love and romance, journalism, immigrant, immigration, greek ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, greece
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When friendship deepens into what veterinarian Keng hopes could become love, he learns that beautiful Fai still harbors feelings for her ex-husband who also happens to be Keng's best friend.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
unfulfillment, friendship, unfulfilled love, family relations, elderly, aging, friends, parents and children, true love, fall in love, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Veteran French director Agnes Varda's Le Petit Amour is based on a short story by actress/songstress Jane Birkin. Birkin herself plays the main character, a loving but lonely 40-year-old divorcee. Her life is brightened a bit by the presence of ...
Style:
art house, aesthetic, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
age difference, forbidden love, coming of age, male female relationship, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother, woman peeing, amor, new love, women, erotic art, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
Style:
emotional, captivating, touching, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, friendship, holocaust, anti semitism, society, teenage life, youth, love and romance, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sentimental Education centers on the unique relationship between Áurea, a lonely 40 year old teacher, and a young man she has just met by chance – one of these encounters which mythology and literature are full of. A delicate soul who finds ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
older woman teenage boy relationship, implied incest, forbidden love, mother son relationship, teachers and students, love and romance, friendship, spirituality, stream of consciousness, affair, sexual deviant, illicit affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
100%
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