Movies like The Climb 1997

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The Climb (1997)
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The Climb (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty cracks about cowards. An old radio tower on a nearby hill is about to be torn down, and Danny decides to climb it to prove his courage. Help comes from an aging neighbor, Old Man Langer, a former construction foreman who's dying of cancer and wants Danny to help him commit suicide. Langer rigs pulleys and weights to help the lad make the climb. Meanwhile, an aggressive and angry neighbor (an army vet) regularly gets drunk and shoots off his rifle, and Danny's dad must confront him. It all comes to a head one stormy night.
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, world war two, heroes, youth, friends, rescue, family relations, human spirit, parents and children, family life, teenage life, aging, terminal illness, child illness, small town, coming of age, small town life, hopes, young heroes, children, climbing, boy, suicide, old man, neighbor ...
Time: 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: baltimore, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, youth, coming of age, parents and children, hopes, friends and friendship mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like The Climb: Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009), A Year in My Life (2006), ...First Do No Harm (1997), A Touch of Fate (2003), The Rocket (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink ...
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic
Plot: friendship, hospital, nurse, coming of age, terminal illness, child illness, boy, wrestling, youth, life is a bitch, human spirit, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, adoption, orphan, youth, family relations, foster parent, foster child, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, foster home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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27%
...First Do No Harm (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and ...
Style: edutainment, controversial, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: medical, youth, blaster, slice of life, health, medicine, child hero, hospital, family relations, bittersweet, small town life, terminal illness ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, baltimore
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25%
A Touch of Fate (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: hopes, friendship, family relations, starting over, redemption, human nature, love and romance, destiny, parents and children, small town, chance, legal action ...
Place: usa, north carolina, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Rocket (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Thailand, Laos
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, down on your luck, contests and competitions, parents and children, friendship, society, human spirit, post war, change of luck, family relations, boy, children ...
Place: asia, thailand
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24%
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Pope Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: terminal illness, follow your dream, hopes, parents and children, family relations, coming of age, young lovers, teenage life, unfulfillment, human nature, mother son relationship, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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23%
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Flying Lessons (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, inspirational
Plot: small town life, parents and children, memory loss, hopes, self discovery, friends, haunted by the past, sexual content, homecoming, small town, family relations, flying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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23%
Time of the Wolf (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A boy is orphaned and his only surviving relatives, an ageing aunt and uncle, somewhat reluctantly, take him in. The aunt, still traumatised by the death by drowning, years earlier, of her own two sons, has little idea how to handle the boy. As if, ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: wolf, orphan, obsessive quest, rescue, animal life, youth, family life, hopes, teachers and students, human animal relationship, nature, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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22%
The Derby Stallion (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: jockey, horse trainer, self discovery, friendship, human spirit, against the odds, teenage life, rivalry, follow your dream, youth, contests and competitions, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
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22%
Becoming Redwood (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A quirky coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy named Redwood who dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Master's of golf he'll reunite his parents.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: youth, golf, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, estrangement, daydreamer, family relations, parents and children, disorder, hopes, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, canada, usa
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22%
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Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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22%
Matching Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style: sincere, uplifting, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, coming of age, hopes, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, bittersweet, terminal illness, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, child illness, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Off the Black (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nick Nolte) gets a younger friend (Trevor Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic
Plot: parents and children, teenage life, friendship, family relations, sport team, high school, high school life, youth, father son relationship, baseball, alcoholic, brother sister relationship ...
Time: year 2006
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Just a Dream (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friendship, friends, obsession, interracial relations, family life, family relations, social relations, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: nevada, usa
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Too Young to Be a Dad (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When 15-year-old, Matt Freeman, gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant her family decides to put the unborn baby up for adoption. Matt agrees to the decision, but begins to rethink it. This movie is taken from the father's point of view.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, teenage life, life turned upside down, family problems, family relations, youth, human spirit, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family in crisis, parenthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia, usa
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The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tony Luke, Jr. stars as Joey Nardone, an out-of-shape boxer, who after 8 years in prison for an unfortunate accident leaves prison and gets a shot at redemption by fighting for one young boy's future - 14 year old Jesus.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot: teenage life, redemption, friendship, hopes, starting over, youth, rivalry, coming of age, profanity, boxing, violent content, friends ...
Place: philadelphia, usa
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20%
Just Like the Son (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, foster home, boy ...
Place: new york, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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20%
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Swimmers (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, dysfunctional family, sex crime, solace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
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20%
Miracle Dogs Too (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Zack, a young boy, finds two cocker spaniels caged in the woods and takes them home. The animals, Sissy and Buddy, have magical healing powers that change the people of a small town.
Style: sentimental, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: dog, small town, family relations, miraculous event, parents and children, hopes, animal life, young heroes, human spirit, pets, magic, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
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Furious (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sven (15) will be director and has been busy filming. He films his friends, especially those to do free running and put the videos on YouTube. He asks Roosmarijn to work on his first feature film. They may not know that he gets a thrashing at home ...
Style: touching, serious, tense, suspense, gloomy ...
Plot: best friend, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, filmmaking, father son relationship, teenage love, skateboard, forgiveness, coming of age, age difference, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Abandoned (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, art house ...
Plot: corporal punishment, orphan, coming of age, children, male bonding, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, friendship, teenage life, boarding school life ...
Time: 60s, year 1960
Place: europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, love and romance, disgraced, single parent, youth, family life, friendship, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new england, maine
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19%
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Absence (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, bleak
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family problems, child as adult, parents and children, family relations, youth, teachers and students, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boy ...
Time: 21st century
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19%
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Lebanon, Pa. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, coming of age, hopes, youth, wooing, small town, road not taken, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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19%
A Time in Quchi (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot: friendship, coming of age, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, boy, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Third Side of the River (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, tense, serious
Plot: coming of age, family problems, parents and children, family relations, small town, under the surface, teenage life, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, double life, father, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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19%
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