Movies like Exploits of a Young Don Juan

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   Amarcord

   Strong story similarity

   1973 · 123 min · Comedy · Drama

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   In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared coming of age movie style

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   Ovosodo

   Strong story similarity

   1997 · 100 min · Comedy · Drama

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   From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared coming of age movie style

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   Malena

   Strong story similarity

   2000 · 108 min · Drama

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   12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared coming of age movie style
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Now and Then

   Strong story similarity

   1995 · 102 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared coming of age movie style

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   English Education

   Strong story similarity

   1983 · 88 min · Comedy · Drama

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   After losing both her parents, young Sylvie is enrolled in a strict boarding school of Victorian English education. The school readily and willingly resorts to a very strict regime of correction and corporal punishment to discipline its female pupils and the young girls compensate for the rigors of their education by devoting themselves to all kinds of kinky schoolgirl sexual encounters.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Master of Love

   Strong story similarity

   1972 · 103 min · Comedy

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   The wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared coming of age movie style
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Long Live the Seal

   Strong story similarity

   1982 · 92 min · Comedy

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   Andrea, a nice girl, move from Veneto (north of Italy) to Roma. She is employed as a nurse in a medical practice. She soon is involved in a never-ending game of misunderstanding, couples exchange, sexual seductions.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Nothing Left to Do But Cry

   Strong story similarity

   1984 · 112 min · Comedy · Fantasy

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   Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

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   • strong story and style similarity
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   Spoiled Children

   Strong story similarity

   1977 · 113 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.

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   • strong story and style similarity
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    Marina and Her Beast 2

    Strong story similarity

    1985 · 68 min · Drama

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    A perverse woman "works" on the corruption of a young girl who serves as her maid.

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