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The Life List (2025)

When her mother sends her on a quest to complete a teenage bucket list, a young woman uncovers family secrets, finds romance — and rediscovers herself.

Directed byAdam Brooks

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  1. 01

    Irreplaceable You

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama · Other

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    A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  2. 02

    Eighth Grade

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 94 min · Comedy · Drama

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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.

    Why it connects

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

    Crush

    Strong story similarity

    2022 · 93 min · Comedy · Other

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    When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she's been harboring a long-time crush on. But she soon finds herself falling for an unexpected teammate and discovers what real love feels like.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  4. 04

    Carrie Pilby

    Strong story similarity

    2017 · 98 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test by venturing out on to the NYC dating scene.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  5. 05

    You're Dating a Narcissist!

    Strong story similarity

    2026 · 91 min · Comedy · Other

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    An outspoken psychologist, burnt by love, takes an emergency trip to Los Angeles with her best friend to talk her smitten daughter out of marrying a man she is convinced is a narcissist.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  6. 06

    Last Christmas

    Similar atmosphere

    2019 · 103 min · Comedy · Drama · Other

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    Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  7. 07

    Roma

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 135 min · Drama

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    In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • similar audience response
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  8. 08

    The 4:30 Movie

    Strong story similarity

    2024 · 88 min · Comedy · Other

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    In the summer of 1986, three sixteen year old friends spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams to see the latest comedy, each of the teens learn more about life and love.

    Why it connects

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

    Queen Bees

    Strong story similarity

    2021 · 101 min · Comedy · Drama · Other

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    Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatious suitors. What she initially avoids leads her to exactly what she has been missing: new friendships and a chance at love again with newcomer Dan.

    Why it connects

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