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Lola (2024)

  • Drama
  • 83 min
  • R age guide
  • ★ 5.2/10 from 25 ratings

19-year-old Lola James is trying to work to save enough money to get her beloved little brother, Arlo, out of their toxic home. Until one tragic night, when her whole world gets uprooted. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.

Directed byNicola Peltz

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    A Good Person

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 128 min · Drama

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    Allison's life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. The unlikely relationship she forms with her would-be father-in-law helps her live a life worth living.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  2. 02

    Ben Is Back

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 103 min · Drama

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    19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  3. 03

    Beautiful Boy

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 121 min · Drama

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    After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  4. 04

    No Address

    Strong story similarity

    2025 · 125 min · Drama

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    A group of individuals who unexpectedly fall into homelessness. They bond together as an unconventional family, struggling to survive on the streets while warding off a harassing gang, an unforgiving community, and local authorities.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  5. 05

    6 Balloons

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    2018 · 75 min · Drama

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    Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  6. 06

    Almost Home

    Strong story similarity

    2019 · 92 min · Drama

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    A teenage girl flees abuse at home to join a strong but troubled young woman that’s been living on the streets. She joins a de facto family of other homeless youth struggling to survive on the streets of Los Angeles.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  7. 07

    The Coyote

    Strong story similarity

    2022 · 89 min · Drama

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    A cook in his heyday, Camilo is now a worn-out fifty-year-old who works for a cleaning company. We can guess a personal failure in the past of this solitary Mexican living in Montreal. However, Camilo wants to get back on track and an opportunity to recover his culinary passion finally presents itself. Everything is in place for this new beginning when Camilo receives a visit from his daughter Tania, with whom he had cut ties because of her drug addiction. She tells him that he is a grandfather and asks him to take care of the child while she undergoes her umpteenth rehab. The arrival of this grandson will upset Camilo’s plans. There will be a new beginning for him, certainly, but not as he imagined it.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  8. 09

    Suncoast

    Strong story similarity

    2024 · 109 min · Comedy · Drama

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    While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  9. 10

    For Colored Girls

    Strong story similarity

    2010 · 134 min · Drama

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    A film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: depressing and rape
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