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Dual (2013)
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Original name: Dvojina
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The paths of two girls cross one evening in Ljubljana. Tina, a Slovene, and Iben, a Danish girl of similar age, both experiencing some kind of turning point in their lives, open up to one another and soon develop a close bond...
Style:
emotional, sincere, clever, witty, atmospheric, serious, realistic, romantic drama, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, direction and purpose, love and romance, fall in love, gays and lesbians, gender, female friendship, chance meeting, connection, language barrier, intimate, loneliness, secrets, slice of life, empathy, bittersweet, communication, travel, coming of age, identity, feminist, summer job, hotel, cat
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
slovenia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about bittersweet, lgbt, friendship, coming of age, identity, intimate and gender mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Dual: Sand Dollars (2014), Boys Love (2006), A Trip (2011), The Woman Who Ran (2020), Limbo (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, realistic, queer cinema
Plot:
moral dilemma, love and romance, rich and poor, cons and scams, gays and lesbians, dishonesty, society, lgbt, island, lesbian, infatuation, woman woman relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
caribbean
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100%
614
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Magazine editor Taishin Mamiya interviews high school model Noeru Kisaragi. Despite Noeru's bad attitude, his painting of an ocean intrigues Mamiya and leads to a dinner, during which Noeru solicits Mamiya sexually. Soon Mamiya sees Noeru with ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay interest, gay, gays and lesbians, forbidden love, love triangle, boys love, youth, promiscuity, love and romance, gay teenager, jealousy, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
934
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Style:
emotional, realistic, road movie, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, journey, love triangle, on the road, coming of age, youth, nomad, lesbian, lgbt, picnic, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul. They make friendly conversation, as always, but there are different currents flowing independently of each other, both above and below the surface.
Style:
thought provoking, sentimental, melancholic, sincere, aesthetic ...
Plot:
female friendship, chance meeting, friends, meet cute, secret past, husband wife relationship, trip, male female relationship, moral dilemma, loneliness, past, character study ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
100%
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106
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
LIMBO is set in a small town in rural Denmark, teenager Sara and young teacher Karen develop a connection. A quiet drama interested as much in the lives of its female protagonists as their surroundings.
Style:
realistic, emotional, reflective, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
intimate, small town, introspection, empathy, slice of life, adolescence, everyday life, youth, coming of age, female friendship, bittersweet, self discovery ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, educational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coping, youth, rebelliousness, high school life, teachers and students, teenage life, social relations, power relations, coming of age, creepy child, psychoanalyst, undisciplined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia, central europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Basketball is the backdrop against which this coming of age lesbian Indie flick is set. A touching story of young ladies irresistibly drawn together against their will.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, basketball, self discovery, friendship, meaning of life, lgbt, best friend, female protagonist, coming of age, youth, lgbtq, young love ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, period piece ...
Plot:
lesbian, forbidden love, love affair, female friendship, family relations, couples, feminism, friendship, fall in love, working class, homecoming, lgbt ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
britain, europe, england, northern england
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The film is about a young woman (Gayle James) running away from her past and moves in with a woman (Leigh Rose) who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease and she believes is her grand-daughter.
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious, reflective ...
Plot:
small town, small town life, connection, loss, memory loss, bittersweet, character study, healing, identity, love, female protagonist, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
127
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris (Andoy Ranay) is a documentary filmmaker with a well-regarded body of work and a large community of ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
breakup, love affair, couples, gender, fall in love, sexual relations, bittersweet, trust, love, gays and lesbians, friendship, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
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Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light. The series has been broadcast since 2009, and is ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
lesbian, gender, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, family life, strong female presence, lesbianism, lgbt, lifestyle, parents and children, gay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
29%
18
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Scorn takes a look into the trials and tribulations of a group of people dealing with relationships, love, pain and friendship during the course of one year.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
bittersweet, love, family problems, introspection, couples, couple relations, human nature, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, urban, abuse, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. They quickly learn that the paths of heart are rocky as the men in their lives reveal dark, unsettling secrets which ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, intercultural, multicultural, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lgbt, identity, female sexuality, lesbian, heartbreak, sexuality, intimacy, migration, gender roles, secrets, female friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, hopes, love and romance, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, heartfelt, independent film, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
family drama, intimate, character study, empathy, small town, compassion, intolerance, female friendship, loneliness, resilience, personal growth, reconciliation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, touching, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, restaurant, lovers apart, love and romance, immigrant, looking for love, haunted by the past, elderly, world war two, italian immigrant, immigration, empathy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Drama - An unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger forever changes the life of four travelers visiting the hometown of a James Dean-like celebrity actor. - Colin Alexander, Jeff Angel, David Grant Briggs
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, road movie ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
indiana
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
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135
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 years ago, Kyoko started to live in Thailand and has been working in a Guest house outside in Chiang Mai, leaving her mother and her daughter Sayo, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, touching, reflective ...
Plot:
village, parents and children, family relations, college graduate, resort, motherhood, relationships, mother and daughter, mother daughter relationship, society, love, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, japan, asia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, emotional, realistic, surreal, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
transsexual, lgbtq, family relations, lgbt, parents and children, transvestism, estrangement, unfulfillment, coming of age, human nature, society, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
quebec, europe, france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
female friendship, beach, female photographer, love triangle, male female relationship, fired from the job, frenchwoman, photography, chance meeting, friendship, intimate, identity ...
Time:
90s, year 2017
Place:
france, cannes
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
performer's life, transvestism, social misfits, family in crisis, gays and lesbians, society, family relations, misfit, bittersweet, gender, cross dressing, gay slur ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, north africa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
This is the story of Nora and Solveig, a grief-stricken couple on a hike through the mountain range where they had a traumatic experience two years prior. Nora and Solveig are hiking through a snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, mountain, lesbian, family problems, couples, hopes, introspection, haunted by the past, dealing with death, gender, couple relations, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story:
Based on a true story, Backpackers follows the lives of a couple with terminal cancer as they spend the last few months of their lives fulfilling their adventurous dreams.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, thrilling, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, couples, love, mortality, love interest, in love, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, life is a bitch, fall in love ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Diego is hosting a farewell party in his house before he leaves on a trip that no one knows about.
Style:
reflective, emotional, melancholic, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
secrets, house party, introspection, intimate, relationships, bittersweet, friendship, regret, single, identity, character study, slice of life ...
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dorina is a transsexual woman. She’s got herself a flourishing career, albeit in an illegal cosmetic surgery business. She is a mother figure to Hero, her eight year old nephew, and a devoted wife to Uno. Between her job and her family, Dorina ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
lgbt, against the rules, moral dilemma, couples, transvestism, life is a bitch, rebellion, couple relations, physical appearance, gays and lesbians, male nudity, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer ...
Style:
lyrical, psychological, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, adulthood, cat, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, seoul, paris france ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, father and son, family life, parents and children, family drama, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, estranged parent, child protagonist, search for father, fatherhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young orphaned woman, named Kotzebue, is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue (K.d. Lang) is helped by a east-german librarian (Rosel Zech), whose husband was killed while fleeing from the GDR. Although ...
Style:
mysterious, contemplative, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbianism, lgbtq, lgbt, indigenous people, iron curtain, librarian, woman woman relationship, fall in love, gays and lesbians, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
alaska, usa, east germany, berlin germany
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21%
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