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Skin Deep (2015)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A heartwarming urban adventure following straight-laced Leah as she meets an unpredictable stranger and falls back in love … with life.
Style:
independent film, touching, emotional, life affirming, psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, road movie, medical drama ...
Plot:
lesbian, female friendship, terminal illness, friendship, lesbian love, lgbt, personal growth, self discovery, mortality, heartwarming, city, women, cancer, friends, illness, girlfriend, female protagonist, fighting illness, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, healing, acceptance, second chance, lgbtq, female bonding, bittersweet ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Skin Deep
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, captivating, psychological and melancholic films with plots about slice of life, bittersweet, friendship, intimate, self discovery, personal growth and female protagonist mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Skin Deep: Happily Ever After (2016), These Days (2016), Anne+: The Film (2021), Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre (2019), Tucked (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Heather and Sarah Ann were growing up they told each other every secret. But Heather left their small town on the last day of high school vowing never to return. Forced to come back when her father becomes ill, the young documentary filmmaker ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic drama, emotional ...
Plot:
wedding, getting home, wedding planning, father daughter relationship, small town, female friendship, wedding preparations and rituals, friends, relationships, friendship, girlfriend, women ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Four girls unknowingly experience the happiest days of their lives during an uneventful best-friend trip to Belgrade.
Style:
road movie, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
female friendship, road trip, job, friendship, coping, women, girlfriend, workplace, female protagonist, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, female best friends ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
belgrade, italy, serbia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Just before Anne is moving from Amsterdam to live with her great love Sara in Montreal, her publisher criticizes the manuscript for her first novel. What exactly is the story she's trying to tell? Does she even have something to say at all? ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic drama, existential ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, relationships, female protagonist, female nudity, lgbt, lesbian love, self discovery, lifestyle, social problems, career, university ...
Place:
amsterdam, montreal
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
baseball, terminal illness, cancer, japanese man, redemption, mortality, bittersweet, fighting illness, guilty conscience, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, problem ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
TUCKED is a raw and tender drama about an aging 80 year old drag queen who forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortality. As they discover more about each other, they ...
Style:
compassionate, emotional, feel good, reflective, independent film ...
Plot:
lgbtq, drag queen, desire for fame, friendship, mortality, slice of life, gay, self discovery, terminal illness, identity, aging, acceptance ...
Similarity:
24%
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 ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a self-help group of 4 people with a terminal illness, led by a therapist without experience.
Style:
emotional, sincere, poignant, touching, existential ...
Plot:
mortality, support group, terminal illness, acceptance, personal growth, humanism, bittersweet, intimate, therapy, friendship, therapist, loss ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness and are nearing death. When one reveals that they have never been to the ocean, they embark on a comical adventure to see the sea.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense, road movie ...
Plot:
friendship, unlikely friendships, mortality, cancer, terminal illness, adult child friendship, fighting illness, stolen money, friends, escapades, child illness, money ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Alex is 16, a misfit, a drop-out, a failure. She uses drugs; she cuts herself. She has been sent by her despairing adoptive mother to a farm in northern Germany. At first, Alex hates this remote place and the demanding job of looking after the ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, relationships, female friendship, couple relations, female protagonist, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, female bonding, horse ranch, love affair, unlikely friendships ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Andrés, a music teacher diagnosed with cancer, seeks treatment at a hospital in the city. His travels there on a singular, dilapidated bus accompanied by other cancer patients. It soon becomes an extraordinary experience, giving him new friends and ...
Style:
life affirming, emotional, uplifting, inspirational, medical drama ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, cancer, compassion, self discovery, healing, resilience, humanism, personal growth, hospital, intimate, second chance ...
Place:
spain, basque country, madrid
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Hoping to leave behind the trauma of her mother's death, a young woman moves to New York City, where she becomes close to her similarly haunted roommate -- until a disturbing revelation changes everything.
Style:
psychological, emotional, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
female friendship, grief, trauma, friends, changing lives, hidden truth, bereavement, neighbor neighbor relationship, relationship problems, women, tragic past, troubled past ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
23-year-old Franky is a nurse who lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, she is unable to build any meaningful ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, romantic drama, melancholic
Plot:
lesbian, female protagonist, revenge, gay interest, fire, catastrophe, lesbian love, trauma, healing, coming of age, bittersweet, traumatic memory ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Boss, an elusive bar owner living in New York, reunites with his estranged best friend, Aood, for a roadtrip in Thailand after Aood has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, psychological, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, road trip, bucket list, mortality, fighting illness, friends, loss, reconciliation, bittersweet, relationships, last wish ...
Place:
thailand, new york, southeast asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two gentlemen meet by chance and decide to go on an adventure together. Their journey becomes a quest for happiness.
Style:
heartfelt, road movie, touching, sincere, talky ...
Plot:
on the road, road trip, male friendship, dying and death, friends, friendship between men, death, last wish, sad ending, on the run, escapades, terminal illness ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
"Letting Life In" explores a single year of life between two people. Michael, a reclusive novelist, lives in a small town in upstate New York. He knows nothing of living life beyond the suffocating walls he has built for himself. Sarah, a ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, life affirming, romantic drama, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, love story, relationships, assistant, personal growth, bittersweet, loss, cancer, healing, writer's life, introspection, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Sheldon's cancer has him navigating around his loving, but very dysfunctional family, providing comic relief as he follows his life's passion for photography. Left at the alter, he begins to realize that he's been in love with his ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, cancer, love story, couples, love and romance, relationships, family relations, relationship problems, couple relations, male female relationship, love interest, eccentric family ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step father after a not-so-tragic accident that claims the life of her mother. Salma goes on a quest to ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, loss of mother, female friendship, grief, female bonding, problem, life is a bitch, family problems, friends, middle aged, middle aged woman ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A chance meeting on a train in the Turkish countryside leads two women to a journey that shows them the importance of setting a path for one's life.
Style:
art house, psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective ...
Plot:
train travel, journey, self discovery, multiple storylines, chance meeting, train, lifestyle, fate of humanity, everyday life, female bonding, intimate, slice of life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Middle aged housewife Kim In-Hee's mother-in-law has Alzheimer's disease, her physician husband is always tired and indifferent to her needs and her children has become wayward. For her family, Kim In-Hee has devoted her life as a ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
illness, family drama, terminal illness, male female relationship, family life, kids and family, relationships, family relations, living together, family problems, nursing, parents and children ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
19%
298
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, uplifting, sincere, life affirming ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, cabaret singer, older woman younger man relationship, musician, terminal illness, mortality, empathy, bittersweet, life & death, bonding, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room. Thirty years later, the daughters meet at a funeral for one of the mothers. Like their mothers, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
female bonding, female friendship, group of friends, girlfriend, sorority, social relations, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, social issues, friends, female protagonist, woman, lifestyle ...
Time:
2000s, 60s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this inspirational love story, a Delhi university student and aspiring writer afflicted with cerebral palsy leaves India for New York University, where she falls for a fiery young activist.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, deep ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, sexual relations, first lesbian experience, disability, lesbian love, self discovery, fall in love, sapphic, cerebral palsy, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, indiana, india, delhi ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, death of father, alcoholic father, family drama, self discovery, road trip, changing lives, travel, father daughter estrangement, lifestyle, personal growth ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
18%
224
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two women are flat-mates and friends in Tokyo. One is an event manager and the other works in the world of fashion marketing. The result shows that one is pregnant one day. The woman decides to give birth out of wedlock. It is a major decision, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, pregnancy, east asian woman, women, relationships, female protagonist, neighbor, girl next door, couple relations, pregnant woman, neighbor neighbor relationship, female friendship ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A high school girl, Man-bok, who has to walk for four hours every day back and forth between home and her school due to the congenital motion sickness disorder, happens to begin her training as a speed walking athlete unexpectedly. Through the ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot:
teenager, female protagonist, coming of age, walking, athlete's life, track and field, teenage girl, schoolgirl, teenage life, athlete, athlete and trainer, underdog ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman experiences a medical miracle, after which she has only a few days to bring together her estranged children, save the family's wallpaper business and rekindle an old flame.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, melancholic, road movie
Plot:
dementia, mother daughter relationship, family drama, memory loss, empathy, bittersweet, healing, second chance, aging, mature, heartwarming, small town ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min.
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Story:
Four thirty-something women who met in highschool continue to maintain a strong friendship despite the passing of time. Although very different, they also have much in common, each earnestly trying to find themselves and their place in the world.
Style:
captivating, heartfelt, emotional, realistic, comedy drama
Plot:
friendship, women, female friendship, high school friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, girlfriend, group of friends, reunited friends, friends, female protagonist, lifestyle, self discovery ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five friends get together for a holiday dinner two years after the friend that linked them all passed away. They discover he has left behind his journal, which challenges all their relationships over the course of one evening.
Style:
psychological, christmas special, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
christmas, friendship, grief, christmas dinner, problem, xmas, friends, christmas spirit, reunited friends, christmas season, dinner, group of friends ...
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148
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The daughter of a late comic is forced to confront her fears of performing.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, self discovery, comedian, problem, psychological trauma, uncertainty, self doubt, social problems, introspection, stand up comedian, coping, female comedian ...
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