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Plot Summary:
When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. While on the road, the girls meet up with Pete, a drifter working as a grounds keeper on a derelict army base, who takes them in. While Violet falls for him, Rosie becomes increasingly angry and hostile, and the sisters' childhood bond is eventually destroyed forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, sexy, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual
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First Love, Last Rites (1997)
Plot Summary:
Joey and Sissel are two misfits spending most of their time together talking or having sex. Gradually and slowly their relationships are becoming boring for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic
Similar in 81%
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991)
Plot Summary:
Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to leave the business and lead a normal life. Elle is hellbent to see that she never has one.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, sexual, sexploitation film
Similar in 84%
The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, avant garde, eros, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, contemplative
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36 fillette (1988)
Plot Summary:
Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third. The playboy's mix of depression and misogyny ends their unconsummated affair, so Lili has to hunt elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, controversial, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, sexual, sexy, masterpiece
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Crutch (2004)
Plot Summary:
An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, David's home life is falling apart. As he tries to cope with the impossible situation, the troubled and impressionable teenager falls under the spell of Kenny, a georgous, thirty-something, has-been actor turned theatre coach. When Kenny's "support" escalates into seduction, David slowly decends into an abyss of drinking and drug addition from which he must escape if he is to survive. CRUTCH is a dramatic tale of the confusion of youth and the difficulties in finding oneself.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, contemplative, gloomy, crying, queer cinema
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Whirlygirl (2006)
Plot Summary:
After a run in with a hot exotic dancer one wintry night straight-laced prep school student James will find himself on the ride of his life. Risking his future he follows this mysterious woman to New York City - ditching school dodging cops and partying at hot nightclubs along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, disturbing, light, sex comedy, serious, hot
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Red Dirt (2000)
Plot Summary:
Red Dirt offers the story of a young man's search to belong in this sublime expression of love and reconciliation. At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of their family's matriarch, and his own dreams of leaving Pine Apple. With the arrival of a stranger, Griffith's carefully constructed walls of shame and silence begin to come down and his life takes an unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, art house, erotic, independent film, contemplative, crying, queer cinema
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Rain (2001)
Plot Summary:
Janey is on vacation with her brother, Jim, mother, Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsual in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit around in the back yard all day drinking whiskey and Janey and Jim are left to their own devices. Cady, a local boaty who is having an affair with Kate, catches Janey's pubescent eye. In response to his wife's drinking problem and recurring infidelity, Ed turns to alcohol, ignoring his children almost as much as his wife, which eventually leads to a character's fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, melancholic, emotional, sexual, sincere, contemplative, erotic, independent film, serious, realistic
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Breathe In (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, gloomy, captivating, realistic, heartbreaking, independent film, psychological, sexy, romantic, bad ending
Similar in 78%
Laura (1979)
Plot Summary:
A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, controversial, serious, realistic, sexual, beautiful
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Guinevere (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, sentimental, touching, romantic, emotional, romantic drama, dark, arthurian, erotic
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, reflective, teen, melancholic, disturbing, talky, realistic, grindhouse, touching
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Breezy (1973)
Plot Summary:
Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the home of a middle-aged divorced man, Frank Harmon. Frank reluctantly takes Breezy in only to fall unexpectedly in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: dramatic, aesthetic, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Personal Velocity (2002)
Plot Summary:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: talky, stylized, intense, touching, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, anthology, erotic
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Fat Girl (2001)
Plot Summary:
Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harboring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, erotic, psychological, sexy, tense, controversial, disturbing, sensual, stylized, sexual
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Normal Adolescent Behavior (2007)
Plot Summary:
High school student Wendy has an odd relationship with her five friends: They're openly sexual with each other, swapping partners every week. But this is all thrown into turmoil when she meets Sean, a new student in school who has a crush on her. Wendy wants to be with Sean, but doesn't want to disappoint her friends, whom she has known since grade school. When she does decide to leave them, her best friend, Billie, threatens revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, serious, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexy, erotic, sexual
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Tanner Hall (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, independent film, captivating, deep, teen, gloomy
Similar in 84%
Towelhead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: disturbing, enigmatic, sensual, melancholic, controversial, compassionate, stylized, erotic, teen, dark comedy
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Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, realistic, retro, cult classic, sentimental, sincere, serious, romantic, sexy
Similar in 75%
Carried Away (1996)
Plot Summary:
Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and his best friend's widow. Joseph, who lacks a college degree, learns that he will lose his teaching job at the end of the year when the school district expands into his town. Meanwhile, he is seduced by 17-year-old Catherine, a new student in his class. His affair with Catherine and losing his teaching job forces Joseph to take a look at his previously dull life and to decide how he wants to live the rest of it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, psychological, disturbing, serious, independent film, dramatic, sexual, sentimental, erotic
Similar in 82%
Bilitis (1977)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, manga, sensual, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Young & Beautiful (2013)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, atmospheric, sensual, controversial, art house, romantic, harsh, intellectual
Similar in 77%
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Plot Summary:
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 166000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, emotional, atmospheric, depressing, teen, sad, sexy, independent film, aesthetic, realistic
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Niagara, Niagara (1997)
Plot Summary:
"Niagra, Niagra" begins quietly in a drugstore in Poughkeepsie, where Marcie, the film's disarming heroine, likes to shoplift. She literally crashes into Seth, a quiet outsider, also on a shoplifting spree. Marcie invites Seth to accompany her to Canada to find a black hairstyling head. They set off in Seth's beat-up station wagon, destined for a toy store in Toronto. While on the road, Marcie confides to Seth that she has Tourette's syndrome, necessitating a series of detours to liquor stories and pharmacies along the roads of upstate New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, melancholic, disturbing, intense, independent film, touching, realistic, romantic, psychological, emotional
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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, erotic, romantic, sweet, sincere, melancholic, period piece, realistic, talky, cult classic
Similar in 83%
Lolita (1997)
Plot Summary:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexual, sexy, melancholic, disturbing, cynical, sensual, romantic, intellectual
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Somersault (2004)
Plot Summary:
Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sexy, psychological, depressing, melancholic, lyrical, art house, erotic
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Very Good Girls (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen, exciting, captivating, touching, sad, independent film, happy
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Ken Park (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, sexual, rough, explicit, sexy, realistic, serious, independent film, erotic
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The Lover (1992)
Plot Summary:
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, sensual, sentimental, controversial, serious, romantic, visually stunning