Movies like Manas
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Manas (2024)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dark abyss of silence held by her own family.
Plot:
coming of age, child abuse, patricide, domestic violence, school, island, police officer, hunting, book, sexual abuse, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, boat, young girl, river, pregnant woman, teenage prostitution, female protagonist, menstruation, 13 year old, abusive father, abuse, daughter murders father, female police officer, incest ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and bleak films with plots about coming of age, teenage girl, psychological drama, child abuse, abuse, family relations and female protagonist mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Manas: Granny's Dancing on the Table (2015), My Only Sunshine (2008), Towelhead (2007), Gone with the River (2015), Miss Impossible (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Eini grows up isolated from society with her father who does everything he can to make Eini believe that the world outside and the people out there are evil, and that all that has to do with sexuality and adulthood is dangerous.
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dark fairy tale, tense, melancholic, art house, intense
Plot:
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eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her infant daughter.
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sad, tense, suspenseful, grindhouse, period piece ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sentimental, sincere, art house ...
Plot:
youth, single parent, parents and children, poverty, family relations, society, teenage life, elderly, social misfits, grandfather granddaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, very little dialogue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, greece, istanbul turkey
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80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Style:
disturbing, sensual, teen, erotic, melancholic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
sexual abuse, pedophilia, adolescence, coming of age, child abuse, sexual exploration, sex with a minor, virginity, teenager, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, child molestation ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s, year 1990, year 1991
Place:
austin texas, usa, houston texas, texas, california
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Dauna dared to be different. She faced the ancestral practices of her culture and she paid the price. She made decisions which made herself suffer and others as well. Without giving up before defeats and loses, these led her to reconcile and become ...
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
husband wife conflict, american indian, fire, prison, singing, photograph, priest, female protagonist, beach, teacher, flashback, tradition ...
Time:
year 1955, year 1973, year 1970, year 1980, year 1985 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
They’re all nuts. Her parents, who want to send her off to boarding school. Her new teacher, who expects her to read impossibly old books. Her fellow band members, who make her sing ridiculous lyrics and dress her up in a frilly white dress for ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
classmate, teenager, sister sister relationship, teenage girl, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, school, friendship, teacher student relationship, best friend, classmate classmate relationship ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style:
art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
child abuse, coming of age, suicide, adolescence, minimalism, betrayal, sexual abuse, solitude, existentialism, children, poacher, humiliation ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, japan, tokyo, paris france
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old Elisa (Claudia Pons) lives with her father (Hans Richter) in Spain following the breakup of her parents. Elisa goes to a fair with her father, and meets one of his friends (Jordi Gracia), a successful jeweler. Days later, a change ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
child rape, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, family relations, troubled past, confronting the past, tragic past, shame, haunting, coming of age ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An 11 year old girl accuses her father of incest.
Style:
historical drama, independent film, crying
Plot:
child abuse, boy, anal rape, father daughter incest, incest, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, accusation, repressed memory, trial, father daughter relationship, liar ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A new mother is haunted by postpartum depression. Based on a true story.
Plot:
incestuous relationship, repressed memory, sexual abuse, childhood sexual abuse, therapy, sexual cruelty, illicit affair, childhood memory, depression, memory, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship ...
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78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Brazil, USA, Slovenia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot:
teenage girl, coming of age, friend, family problems, teenager, relationship problems, control, parents and children, father, grownups, father daughter conflict, diving ...
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78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Tamara lives within a cult that is ruled by the beliefs of its leader Miguel, who becomes obsessively convinced that Tamara is the "chosen one". But when she falls in love with a classmate, Tamara's relationship gets ...
Style:
psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
chosen one, obsession, commune, rebelliousness, cult leader, fall in love, power relations, rape, coming of age, young girl, child rape, bare butt ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dennis Hopper is a hard-drinking truck driver who loses control of his truck under the influence and slams it into a busload of screaming children. After serving his five year jail sentence, Hopper finds his daughter, Cebe (Linda Manz), the love of ...
Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...
Style:
tense, grim, dark, period piece, social ...
Plot:
children, sex scene, childhood, abusive father, child abuse, bullying, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, loss of innocence, violence, trauma, coming of age ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, rough, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, interracial rape, rape, poverty, defloration, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, pimp, family in crisis, sister sister relationship, teenage girl, prostitute ...
Time:
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Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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76%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, north sea, teenage runaway, juvenile delinquency, runaway, teenager, raft, runaway teen, sailing, foreigner, thievery, male friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
Style:
realistic, serious, erotic, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
forbidden sex, pedophilia, mother daughter relationship, teenage sexuality, dysfunctional family, rape, family relations, parents and children, friendship, pedophile, friends, israeli ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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10K
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA, Chile, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as ...
Plot:
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Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah (confirmation), which will take place on Passover. Becoming convinced that she is impure, and growing increasingly scared and depressed, she forces ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, bleak, dark, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, jewish girl, orthodox jew, religion, obsessive compulsive disorder, ritual, religious, girl, self discovery, self acceptance, teenage girl, adolescence ...
Place:
israel
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Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
domestic abuse, abuse, trauma, domestic violence, neglect, bullying, dysfunctional family, social problems, life is a bitch, traumatic past, violence, family problems ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
75%
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Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, child abuse, rape, coming of age, parents and children, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, pedophile, physical abuse, child molestation, sexual assault ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
south carolina, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
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661
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
family relations, friendship, coming of age, life is a bitch, social misfits, young heroes, youth, child abuse, teenage girl, teenage boy, abusive father, alcoholic father ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
gender roles, family conflict, female protagonist, claustrophobia, female empowerment, isolation, identity crisis, patriarchy, female nudity, coming of age, moral ambiguity, family relations ...
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southern california
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120K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, inspirational, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, coming of age, poverty, teacher, sexual abuse, illiteracy, african american, domestic violence, aids, child abuse, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a ...
Style:
psychological, rough, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
woods, male nudity, friendship, teenage boy, rebellion, life is a bitch, social misfits, rebelliousness, youth, friends, escape from reality, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Style:
sexy, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
abuse, kidnapping, child molester, child prostitution, pedophile, rape, pimp, child abduction, child molestation, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, kidnapped ...
Place:
california, usa, pennsylvania, san diego california, florida
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