Movies like The Kids Aren't Alright

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The Kids Aren't Alright (2016)
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The Kids Aren't Alright (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Story: Ross is trying to come to terms with the suicide of one of his classmates, as he finds his life falling down around him. Suddenly he finds himself involved in a new friendship with the new girl in school, Róisín. She helps to lead him in the right direction as he tries to turn his life around and come to terms with his emotions. She's everything he ever wanted in a girl, except for the fact that she's gay.
Style: psychological, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating, lgbt cinema, contemplative
Audience: teen drama
Plot: school, suicide, teenager, youth, homosexuality, friends, love and romance, love, lesbian, lgbt, friendship, couples, sexual orientation, romance
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out unusual plot structure, psychological, tense and contemplative films with plots about youth, love and romance, friendship, love, couples, friends and teenager mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Kids Aren't Alright: Pitong Dalagita (2006), Matted (2010), Face 2 Face (2016), Summertime (2016), Kate Can’t Swim (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pitong Dalagita (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, psychological, suspense
Plot: suicide, love, friendship, self discovery, teenager, lesbian, school, muse, coming of age, life, gay, teen romance
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Matted (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
Story: Rose Lee is just a typical high school student trying to figure things out. Her dream is to join the boy's wrestling team, but no one is making it easy for her. Along the way, she'll discover that her most difficult opponent may be herself.
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Face 2 Face (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere, tense, touching ...
Plot: bullying, coming of age, childhood friend, found footage, friendship, youth, couple relations, love and romance, teenage life, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Summertime (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
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Plot: gay, gay couple, summer vacation, gay interest, love, friendship, summer, couples, friends, love and romance, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, italy, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Kate Can’t Swim (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Kate’s best friend Em returns from abroad with a surprising new lover, they embark on a reunion vacation with their partners, but the peaceful getaway quickly becomes emotionally complicated.
Style: lgbt cinema, psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure, sentimental ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, friendship, young adult, lesbian attraction, cheating on boyfriend, love, fall in love, friendship between girls, couple relations, female writer, love and romance ...
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Chicken (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their ...
Style: touching, contemplative, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, first love, learning disability, farm, caravan, teenager, friendship, fall in love, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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Ville-Marie (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Celebrated European actor Sophie Bernard is in Montreal shooting a movie, and she's taking the opportunity to visit her son Thomas in the hope of bridging the rift that's grown between them. But Thomas has his own agenda for their time ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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Out With Dad (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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Style: erotic, psychological, captivating, touching, suspense ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian interest, single father, high school, father daughter relationship, teenager, lesbian daughter, friendship, lgbtq, coming of age, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Shining Moon (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A jobless gay actor is offered the dream role of a lifetime in a feature film, but he must play an elderly drag. He will be forced to overcome his fears and prejudices to understand better himself and the others.
Style: sexy, psychological, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, couples, couple relations, love and romance, love, actor's life, gay lead character, filmmaking, society, filmmaker, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile
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Butterfly Kisses (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: sexy, contemplative, unusual plot structure, humorous, light ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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All Foreigners Keep Their Curtains Closed (2020)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 83 min.
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Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
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Story: "Nowhere" is a drama about Adrian and Sebastian, a Colombia couple living together in New York City. When Sebastian is faced with immigration complications, Adrian must learn to overcome his fear of rejection from his family back in ...
Style: romantic, psychological, tense, captivating, melancholic ...
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Duration: 88 min.
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Style: psychological, suspense, tense, sentimental, sexy ...
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Time: 21st century
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So Long Suburbia (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 64 min.
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Style: sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative, captivating, queer cinema
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 21st century
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Like You Mean It (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: sexy, contemplative, unusual plot structure, psychological, sentimental ...
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Clayton & Claudia (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Being 14 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
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Time: 21st century
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense, tense ...
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Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: france
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Tag (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Billy is the self-designated leader of a group of teenagers living in a shelter. Jacob and Rae, Billy's oldest childhood friends, live there as well as part of "the family". Billy has an AIDs-like virus, which he has passed on to his ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Minor (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: High school student Jen Guilarman lives in misery with her abusive mother and her mom's lesbian lover. Looking for some escape, she aims to join an all-girl gang which first requires her to undergo a sexual rite. Jen only has one man in mind, ...
Style: unusual plot structure, sexy, psychological, suspenseful, touching ...
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Time: 21st century
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6A (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min.
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Style: suspense, tense, contemplative, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: bullying, school teacher, school, teacher, parents, doubt, mistrust, crisis, friendship, teenager, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
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In Between (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and ...
Style: sincere, humorous, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot: israeli, muslim, dating, arab, friendship, female friendship, student, young woman, university, single woman, roommate, drug use ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, maghreb, jerusalem ...
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Love That Boy (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Love That Boy is the story of Phoebe, a socially inept overachiever, unrecognized in a world run by C students. Phoebe’s life is totally dominated by her “To Do Before Graduation” list. When Phoebe’s best friend Robyn dumps Phoebe two weeks ...
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, light, touching ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, friendship, friends, youth, college, coming of age, age difference, looking for love, teenager, obsession, love and romance ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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Time: 21st century
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