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Ciske the Rat (1984)
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Original name: Ciske de Rat
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the German 1955 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart of gold. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night - his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske is also a very angry young man and he smoulders with rage at life's injustices.
Style:
epic, cult classic, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, eighties
Plot:
boy, coming of age, abuse, youth, child abuse, nudity, loneliness, murder, childhood, prostitute, misfit, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, injustice, society, social misfits, down on your luck, single parent, hardcase students, police officer, teacher, police, politics, prostitution ...
Time:
1930s, year 1934, 20th century, 30s
Place:
amsterdam, europe, holland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and gloomy films with plots about family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, youth, society, coming of age and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ciske the Rat: Pixote (1980), My Only Sunshine (2008), The Narrows (2008), Joe (2013), Simon & the Oaks (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style:
depressing, rough, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prostitution, street kid, child abuse, boy, sex with a minor, coming of age, 10 year old, child rape, children, nude boy, violent, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil ...
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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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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other ...
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serious, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
college student, moral dilemma, parents and children, city life, family relations, human nature, self discovery, society, coming of age, hot and sexy, nypd, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
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22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.
Style:
touching, dark, harsh, atmospheric, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, father son relationship, woods, coming of age, teenager, hopes, friendship, boy, teenage boy, lost in the woods, small town, redemption ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
texas, southern usa, britain, midwest, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, boy, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, german history, aftermath, nordic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A 14-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad are both outcasts in their suburban town.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, sentimental, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
unemployment, family relations, racism, parents and children, life is a bitch, social misfits, misfit, alcohol abuse, father son relationship, father, lgbt, violent content ...
Time:
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Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
losing-it hero, single parent, coming of age, teenage boy, introspection, teenage life, bullying, youth, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's ...
Style:
serious, captivating, bleak, islamic, social ...
Plot:
homeless, street kid, youth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, friendship, danger, society, gang, vengeance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, middle east, maghreb, morocco
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spanish civil war, post war, coming of age, revenge, hate, human nature, society, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, uncover truth, injustice, social relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
spain, catalonia, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An autistic 15-year-old boy steals money from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father, who uses the money to repay a loan shark.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, teenage life, society, terminal illness, underdog, parents and children, loan, family in crisis, urban ghetto life, autism, autist, disability ...
Time:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, street gang, coming of age, youth gang, gang, bullying, friendship, parents and children, urban ghetto life, high school life, urban ghetto, blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style:
emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
redemption, child abuse, children, coming of age, boy, dysfunctional family, working class, juvenile detention, youth, corporal punishment, childhood, poverty ...
Time:
year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
couple relations, restaurant, family relations, life is a bitch, under the surface, family problems, couples, haunted by the past, parents and children, juvenile delinquency, family in crisis, family secret ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, holland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then ...
Style:
neo noir, anthology, twisted, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Jojo lives with his father, a security guard with a volatile personality who drinks to manage the unspoken despair he feels about his wife's absence, which he refuses to discuss with his son. In the midst of so much uncertainty, ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
parents and children, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, bird, father son relationship, youth, pets, escape from reality, dishonesty, life & death, children ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
J.W. Katadreuffe is the son of Joba Katadreuffe and A.B. Drevenhaven. Though fully neglected by Joba, Dreverhaven ensures the succesfull career of his son. Mostly unseen, though he sues his son a few times. The son Katadreuffe succeeds, but at great ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, twisted, slasher ...
Plot:
law, communism, family relations, chess, lawyer, court, dysfunctional family, love, mentor, poverty, hospital, corruption ...
Time:
year 1997, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s, 1910s
Place:
rotterdam netherlands, netherlands, poland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
police, family life, family problems, couples, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, introspection, couple relations, redemption, youth, teenage life ...
Place:
usa, midwest
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
hypnosis, hospital, hypnotist, murder, boy, witnessing a crime, police detective, investigation, danger, nurse, male victim, murder investigation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a rooming house where ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
coming of age, death, betrayal, soldier, family relations, cons and scams, parents and children, hospital, drinking, orphanage, thief, passion ...
Time:
50s, post world war two, year 1997, 1940s, 20th century ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, black sea, siberia, new jersey
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17%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, serious, queer cinema
Plot:
androgyny, social misfits, lgbt, family relations, youth, parents and children, friendship, society, gay, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, italy, sicily
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, life is a bitch, fighting crime, vengeance, social decay, disability, society, parents and children, mental illness, addiction, murder, drug abuse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A stripper at the club Studio Six is murdered. A political scandal takes off when the Minister of Commerce appears to have been at the club. He resigns - but only to hide an even bigger secret.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense ...
Plot:
journalism, murder, life is a bitch, law enforcement, media, minister, female nudity, politics, dishonesty, violence, society, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
17%
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268
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set in Norfolk, amidst an idyllic, brooding landscape, an innocent teenage boy and his battle-weary father live a simple life. Days are spent hunting, fishing and daydreaming. Out-of-nowhere, disrupting this tranquility, a mysterious intense figure ...
Style:
captivating, tense, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
father son relationship, mercenary, hitman, teenage life, single parent, isolation, youth, life is a bitch, family relations, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
17%
364
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods...In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and protect those he loves?
Style:
suspenseful, serious, touching, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
youth, juvenile delinquency, society, parents and children, family relations, urban, working class, coming of age, moral ambiguity, survival, desperation, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bilbao. The commander of the Guardia Civil, Evaristo Torrecuadrada discovers that his son Paco of 17 years old is a heroin addict. His hope was to see him in the Military Academy. Paco, by differences with his father, runs away from home with a ...
Style:
social, hood, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
gay interest, male nudity, coming of age, homosexual, friendship, male pubic hair, delinquent, drug overdose, father son relationship, bare chested male, overdose, juvenile delinquent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
basque country, europe, spain
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young Katelijne, who grows up in a religious family in the countryside in Zeeland. Based on the novel by Franca Treur.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
teenage girl, coming of age, farm, family relations, corporal punishment, religions or cults, parents and children, society, village life, church, wedding, rural setting ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
netherlands, belgium
Similarity:
17%
692
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A 12 year old boy and his single mother live separate lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy’s solitude is both a source of freedom and a cause for grief. His explorations slowly bring to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, working class, small town, parents and children, family problems, youth, society, single parent, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, realism, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, sentimental, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
orphan, redemption, childhood, poverty, child abuse, boyhood, boy, injustice, orphanage, chess, children, corporal punishment ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, 1800s, year 2005 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After losing his parents in a car accident, Mukesh stays at his Aunt's house in Delhi. Enrolled in a good for nothing course in college he finds peace by playing chess at the local cemetery, the rest of the times he worries over ways to make a ...
Style:
erotic, serious, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
sex scene, femme fatale, infidelity, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, prostitute, sexual relations, innocence lost, youth, downfall, down on your luck, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, new delhi
Similarity:
17%
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