Best movies like Sweet Temptation
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Plot Summary:
Jade is a sixteen year old girl with all the problems a teenager faces. Moreover, her parents are divorced and she lives with her mother Jesse. Jesse falls in love with Billy, a much younger man who is also divorced and has two little kids. When Billy comes to live with her mother, Jade feels really uncomfortable; and maybe she is attracted to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, touching
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Triple Dare (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they devise a rite of passage, the 'fortune teller', symbolizing their entry into adulthood. As they take turns challenging each other's sexual boundaries, they eventually have to ask themselves whether performing weird rituals is the easiest way to get to know themselves and feel grown up.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, sexy, humorous, absurd
Similar in 88%
Tiger Milk (2017)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah's family is from Iraq and might be deported if their application for citizenship isn't approved, but right now, the girls try not to worry about these existential problems. They look forward to the Berlin summer and the school holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, realistic, not serious, sexy
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V.D. (1961)
Plot Summary:
A high school track star's wedding plans are capsized by venereal disease and a bad, beautiful new girl in town. His coach and a physician steer him into the light again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Surviving: A Family in Crisis (1985)
Plot Summary:
Rick is a 17 year old golden boy whose father wants him to became a doctor like himself. Lonnie is a problematic 16 year old girl, who has just come out from a sanatorium after an attempted suicide. The families of both teens are very close friends. Right away, Lonnie and Rick fall strongly in love for each other. Meanwhile Rick becomes aware that his father betrays his mother, so he begins to show his uneasiness at home and do odd things. Thinking Lonnie's the reason of his son's behaviour, Rick's father forbids him to see her anymore. After an unsuccessful getaway the two adolescents realize their love is impossible, therefore they decide to commit suicide. From then onwards both o their families are destroyed, and their friendship as well. It'll be hard to reconstruct the family and retrieve the friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Unpolished (2007)
Plot Summary:
Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their responsibilities, Stevie tries to make a good impression in town, spreading stories of grandeur and claiming to be the daughter of a diplomat. She makes progress. Yet the good weather doesn’t last and before long, she discovers that her parents have once more resorted to illegal means, as a way of supporting their leisurely lifestyle. As friends and hangers-on of her parents fill their new home, the chaos continually mounts. It is in this atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction, that Stevie must now start to define herself and perhaps even break free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Home Before Midnight (1979)
Plot Summary:
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Hala (2019)
Plot Summary:
Meet 17-year-old Hala, who struggles to balance being a suburban teenager with her traditional Muslim upbringing. As she comes into her own, Hala finds herself grappling with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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For My Daughter's Honor (1996)
Plot Summary:
In Tate, Oklahoma a popular coach, Pete Nash, is accused of having a sexual relation with 14 years old Amy, one of his school's pupils.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Before the Rooster Crows (2016)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound sadness. The relationship with him, however, brings its own ambiguousness and complexities and as Carmín moves into womanhood this causes great confusion, mostly for her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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It Felt Like Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to have a love interest of her own, a bravado-filled Lila pursues Sammy, a tough but handsome older boy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, erotic, sexy, captivating, underground film, psychological, social, sincere
Similar in 79%
Baby Love (1969)
Plot Summary:
When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house as a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperate search for love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, grindhouse, independent film
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Adrift (2009)
Plot Summary:
A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, serious, realistic, teen, spectacular, stylized, gloomy, sexual
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Sharing the Secret (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, touching, serious, teen
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Love, Math and Sex (1997)
Plot Summary:
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Monika (1974)
Plot Summary:
Monika is young, beautiful and a virgin. She is only 16 years old, and, beside getting the attention of all her classmates, she also attracts older men. She has a relationship with a boy, Leo, but she doesn't know that he uses to pimp the girls he seduces to rich businessmen. One of Leo's client befriends Monika and becomes so obsessed that he pays Leo to get her. But Monika turns her attention to her art professor, unknowing that he too has his secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sensual, sexploitation film
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Ask Me Anything (2014)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt takes a year off before college to find herself, all the while chronicling her adventures in an anonymous blog into which she pours her innermost secrets. Eventually, Katie's fearless narrative begins to crack, and dark pieces of her past emerge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, sexy, psychological, touching, dramatic, intense, independent film, sexual
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. The complicated family dynamics makes things difficult for everyone in the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: melancholic, disturbing, sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, mumblecore, mind blowing, sincere, serious
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Cindy and Donna (1970)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year old Cindy is in awe of big sister, Donna’s sexual exploits, but she just doesn’t get it. Whether she’s spying on Donna, parked and “makin’ it” in the driveway with her boyfriend, or watching her bang dear ol’ stepdad, Cindy is curious but timid. But “don’t be afraid, Cindy” instructs the dreamy, ballady, canned-cheese 70s soundtrack, as Cindy inches her way toward womanhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, cult classic, grindhouse, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy, cult film
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She's Too Young (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) discovers that her "good girl" daughter (Alexis Dziena) is part of a group who are engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners. Such activity results in an outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, teen, sexual, crying, sexy, ridiculous
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Natasha (2015)
Plot Summary:
Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman arrives in Canada with her fourteen year-old daughter, Natasha. Mark, a slacker, is conscripted by his parents to take responsibility for the strange girl. He learns that, in Moscow, she’d led a troubled and promiscuous life. A secret and forbidden romance begins between the two of them that has bizarre and tragic consequences for everyone involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, touching, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Gracie's Choice (2004)
Plot Summary:
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Similar in 86%
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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Blue Car (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her English teacher, Mr. Auster. But what started out as a mentoring relationship begins to get a bit more complex.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, depressing, disturbing, poignant, heartbreaking, sincere, serious, contemplative, sad, intense
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Our Song (2000)
Plot Summary:
Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" and the choices the girls face once their school closes down because of the need for asbestos removal. This film is about a host of topics, not least of which is the hard-work involved in maintaining.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, thought provoking, touching, independent film, serious, realistic, contemplative, neorealism, erotic
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Little Lips (1978)
Plot Summary:
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, serious, melancholic, romantic, sexy, sexual, erotic, art house
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The Babysitters (2007)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexy, erotic, independent film, bleak, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, romantic, dark
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Pretty Baby (1978)
Plot Summary:
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: controversial, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic, thought provoking, sentimental, stylized, erotic, romantic
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Palo Alto (2013)
Plot Summary:
Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to any boy to cross her path; and the increasingly dangerous exploits of Teddy and his best friend Fred, whose behavior may or may not be sociopathic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: melancholic, atmospheric, serious, teen, realistic, indie film, aesthetic, erotic, mumblecore, artsy
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An Education (2009)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, period piece, costume drama, romantic, feel good, talky, stylized, offbeat, indie film, sexy
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American Beauty (1999)
Plot Summary:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: melancholic, thought provoking, dark comedy, sexual, cerebral, dramatic, sexy, black comedy, tragicomedy, cynical