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The Guitar Mongoloid (2004)
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Original name: Gitarrmongot
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A 12-year-old boy making basic punk songs, grown men playing with guns, a neurotic woman with euphoric happiness targeting self destruction – a Swedish everyday life you've never seen before.
Style:
thrilling, independent film, bleak, satirical, absurd, dark comedy, black humor, nostalgic
Plot:
nordic, teenager, teenage life, social problems, lifestyle, social issues, youth, adolescence, everyday life, coming of age, punk, rebellion, self destructing, outsider, small town, slice of life, intimate, loneliness, alienation, identity, social realism, male bonding, violence, female antagonist, happiness ...
Place:
eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, psychological, captivating and emotional films with plots about coming of age, small town, identity, adolescence, teenager, intimate and youth mostly in Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Guitar Mongoloid: Ham on Rye (2019), The Fall of Sparta (2018), West Coast (2016), The Chimp (2001), No Alternative (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain…
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Duration: 93 min.
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When we are young, we sometimes feel that the world is stacked against us. This is the case for 16 year-old Steeve Simard (Lévi Doré), who is entering his last year at Gaston-Miron High School in St-Lambert. A cynical intellectual with a critical ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Kyrgyzstan, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
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The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn ...
Style:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Thomas Harrison is determined to start his own alternative band after the suicide of Kurt Cobain—it's an obsession that blinds him to what's either the mental collapse, or the eruption of musical genius, of his little sister, Bridget. ...
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Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mia and Mirjam are two 14-year-olds who live in a very dreary little town. Though not especially grown-up, they're both trying. Mirjam gets a head start by forming a relationship with an older man who says he loves her. Mia has a dad who drinks ...
Style:
psychological, touching, tense, melancholic
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
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84%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Malaysia
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
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asian, refugee, immigrant, urban, relationships, social problems, lifestyle, social issues, diaspora, outsider, identity, slice of life ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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coming of age, children, childhood, child protagonist, youth, friendship, self discovery, orphanage, adolescence, boy, survival, intimate ...
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poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a poor neighborhood crisscrossed by a polluted river, Tati, a 14-year-old girl, is forced to grow up alone in a troubled and confusing context. While learning to sail on the river, she dreams of being a boat rower. A job only ruled by men.
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emotional
Plot:
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77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
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Story:
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Time:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Carl is expected someday to take over his parents’ agribusiness in a rural backwater in Denmark. But, as an adopted child, he also longs to learn more about his South Korean heritage. A film about otherness and finding your own place in life.
Style:
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Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 102 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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Similarity:
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Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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