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Shiva Baby (2021)

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • 78 min
  • 14 age guide
  • ★ 7.1/10 from 824 ratings

College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.

Directed byEmma Seligman

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    Bottoms

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    Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • strong shared themes: coming of age and lgbt
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  2. 02

    Eighth Grade

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    Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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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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  3. 03

    Fitting In

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    A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.

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    • strong story and style similarity
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  4. 04

    You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

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    2023 · 103 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.

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  5. 05

    Suncoast

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  6. 06

    This Is Where I Leave You

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    2014 · 103 min · Comedy · Drama

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    When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.

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    • strong story and style similarity
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  7. 07

    Alex Strangelove

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    2018 · 99 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.

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    • strong story and style similarity
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  8. 08

    Everybody's Talking About Jamie

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    Crush

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: candid and coming of age
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  10. 10

    Diggers

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    2007 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama

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