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Surviving Lunch (2019)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Gabriella, a courageous and tough New York teenager. She witnesses the killing of her father, a beloved teacher at her high school, who tries to help a student being bullied. Trying to recover from their grief, Gabriella and her mother move to Florida where Gabriella enrolls in a new school. But there is no escaping the cause of her heartbreak as she sees a boy being relentlessly bullied in the lunchroom. Determined to survive lunch, Gabriella must find a way to stop the bullies, even if it means standing up to the most violent boy in school.
Style:
emotional, realistic, intense, suspense
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
bullying, high school, courage, coming of age, young adult, survival, grief, new school, resilience, peer pressure, revenge, justice, mother daughter relationship, moral dilemma, teen angst, empathy, friendship, isolation, relocation, school
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, intense, realistic and suspense films with plots about coming of age, friendship, peer pressure, isolation, bullying, teen angst and high school mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like Surviving Lunch: The Choking Game (2014), Enemies (2025), Minmini (2024), The Knife That Killed Me (2014), Tenkiller (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Duration: 103 min.
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Place:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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379
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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521
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Country: India
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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